Word: tools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...watch people. I love to sit and listen to people. And I do bitterly resent that it's not always possible now, because I'm an object of scrutiny. When the cloak which allows you to observe is stripped from you, then the most useful and indeed fascinating tool of your work is taken with...
...Departments use discussion sections as a pedagogic tool for graduate students," Robertson says. "The point of doing this for a lot of graduate students is to teach them how to teach in the future...
...fund was a creative protest tool," Holtzman said. "We were expressing the view that we supported the University, but still objected to its involvement in South Africa. It clearly had an effect on the University...
...methods by which Moscow seeks to woo back the near abroad republics can be crude, often mustered under the broad banner of protecting ethnic Russians. In some cases the tool is brute military force of the sort used in December 1992 when Russian-manned planes from Uzbekistan helped bring down a government of Tajikistan composed of Islamic and democratic groups, and installed pro- communist rulers. In other regions, Russia prefers to flex its muscles by yanking the economic rug out from under a government -- as it did last week when Moscow began cutting off gas supplies to Belarus, Moldova...
...neglects to indicate how we might construct touchstones that would work better ad in more socially and politically progressive ways than the ones we have so far." Paradoxically, it is only in the recognition of his limitations that theory ultimately comes into its own as a tool...