Word: tools
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During an hour-long question and answer session earlier this year, the panel of college presidents fielded questions from the caucus and presented information supporting their theory that higher education is a valuable tool for helping AFDC recipients get off welfare...
...Kent State associate professor ofinstructional technology, Drew Tiene, created adocumentary about the killings this spring. Anundergraduate in 1970 who had been a demonstratorin the anti-war movement, Tiene wanted thedocumentary to be used as "a tool to teach peoplewhat led to the deaths," according to an articlein the Chronicle of Higher Education...
More recently, according to court papers submitted last February by Apple Computer, Gates personally threatened to stop developing application software for the Macintosh if Apple continued working on a programming tool that would compete with Microsoft's. "Since Microsoft is the largest supplier of software applications for the Macintosh," wrote Apple general counsel Edward Stead, "this threat was a serious one." Gates denies saying any such thing...
...links that bind users to Microsoft software run deep-down to the level of "plumbing" invisible to the user but of critical importance to the programmer. For example, Microsoft has for several years been using a tool called ole (for object linking and embedding) that makes it easier for users to move information from one Windows application to another-to shuttle an expense report from a spreadsheet to a word-processing document, for example. Apple is developing a competing system, called OpenDoc, that is supposed to run equally well on Windows, Mac and IBM's OS/2. But if a programmer...
Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) Treasurer Andrew J. Ehrlich '96 said yesterday that the book will be a "useful" tool...