Word: tools
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...Texas N.A.A.C.P. has complained to the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights that the TAAS has a discriminatory impact. A ruling may be announced this week. "We're not against testing," says state N.A.A.C.P. president Gary Bledsoe, "but testing should be used as a diagnostic tool, not for punitive purposes...
...TOOL FOR CANCER RESEARCH...
Traylor then compounded the damage by having Jones tell her story for the first time in public at a Feb. 11, 1994, press conference in Washington where she shared a stage with Clinton haters. That helped to convince many that Jones was a tool, witting or unwitting, of the rabid right. Though Jones is said by partisans to be oblivious to politics, Susan Carpenter-McMillan, a friend and counselor who describes herself as a "conservative Christian activist," says Jones was indeed used by extreme rightists, and was too naive to realize...
...articles that are useful, as opposed to being about Tea Leoni). Esquire, which in its '60s incarnation published some of the decade's defining journalism, has just this month been remade in a more service-oriented mode: the president of its corporate division now describes it as a "tool kit for living." David Granger, a GQ editor who last week was named Esquire's new editor in chief, insists that "all aspects of a man's life are pretty damn interesting, including fashion, health, grooming." Sure, but this gets at an essential problem: while women have a long history...
...convicts and then sold cheaply--and illegally--in America. MFN opponents accuse the Clinton Administration of turning a blind eye toward Beijing. Even George Weise, who heads U.S. Customs, the agency charged with preventing the import of prison-made goods, admits lamely that "we simply do not have the tools" to carry out that mission. Weise admits the agency is similarly tool-less in spotting mislabeled apparel imports, which amount to at least $2 billion annually...