Word: use
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...council, on the suggestion of City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci, also decided to set up a hot line for use by Cambridge residents without heat...
Canada. The U.S.'s biggest trading partner is having its share of economic problems. Its new Conservative Prime Minister, Joe Clark, is committed to cutting inflation from its present annual rate of 11.7% to 5% and joblessness from 7.9% to 5.5% by 1985. Clark has vowed to use tax cuts and other incentives to boost Can ada's growth from its present level...
...orchestra, everything matters. The power to take responsibility is the difference between being rich and well and poor and sick." He plans to start work on classics. "That is where my strength and my training are," he says. "I will find new choreographers. I do not intend to use A.B.T. as some training ground for myself...
...hope he will find young choreographers and nurture them. He will be good for the dancers, because he is not jealous in any way-and that is rare. But at first there will be trouble. He will have to sweep out the people he can't use. I think he should be courageous...
This surprising moral treatise concerns a historical episode little known in the West in which the Japanese, having learned to make and use firearms, thereupon set those skills aside for 200 years. Portuguese sailors brought the first matchlocks to Japan in 1543, and within a few years the Japanese were using their own much improved models with bloody effectiveness. A nationwide revulsion then occurred, not because of the bloodiness, notes Perrin - Japan was one of the most bellicose countries on earth - but because guns gave common soldiers the means to kill noble samurai. By the time Commodore Perry forced...