Word: tools
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...evolution, individuals with strong innate yearnings for food, sex and material goods did a better job of surviving and reproducing than individuals less drawn to these things. So we inherited genes conducive to such yearnings. In the same manner, anger (another of the deadly sins) became a naturally engrained tool of survival, aimed, for example, at those who would take our food or our mates...
...comes close to the excitement the invention of television must have caused for Americans back in their day. The Internet has become all inclusive: anyone having anything to say, any company wishing to advertise are all a part of it. Industries and individuals alike have developed themselves through this tool. And anybody who is anybody has a .com or .aol after their name. It is the new tradition...
Telling the American public that he envisions an America "where computers are as much a part of the classroom as blackboards" may win Clinton a few votes, but the fact remains that the vast majority of teachers still uses textbooks as the primary tool for learning. Computers and the vaunted Internet are merely supplements. Spending millions on computers to equip every classroom is not cost-effective. It is more important that students learn how to think than to surf the World Wide...
Kantor, the former United States Trade Representative, cited education as the primary tool for enabling the nation to work collectively in the competitive, foreign market...
...Reciting this list of protected interests was actually a positive aspect of the debate that people will not forget," she said. "As funny as it may seem, it was a great tool for people to follow what he was talking about and for trying to outline a plan for the future...