Word: tools
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Conceivably, the U.N. could one day throw its umbrella over a new peacekeeping (i.e., Iraq-containment) force in the Middle East; it has already voted to dispatch 20,000 soldiers and civilians from various countries to police a prospective settlement in Cambodia. For some time, though, its primary tool to enforce its decisions will probably continue to be the embargo. Not long ago, such economic sanctions were considered useless. But that thinking is changing. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, formerly the loudest voice in the sanctions-never-succeed school, stated last week, "It is just becoming obvious that some...
...from the Sons of Italy organization, California has issued an unprecedented recall of dicey plates that sport such titles as DUMDAGO, 14KWOP, DAGOGOD and TOPWOP. Some drivers were allowed to keep their tags, like the '50s music-enthusiast owner of DUWOP39. But many of the Italian Americans who proudly tool around above the offending plates are balking at giving them up: 162 drivers have requested a hearing in order to hold on to them...
...indefensible Steinbrenner aside -- is this a rational form of organizational behavior? Many in baseball defend the practice, more as a psychological tool to motivate multimillion-dollar egos than as a strategic gambit. "I can get you ten to 15 people who can sit in the dugout and know when to change pitchers," contends Mets general manager Frank Cashen. "But I can't get you ten to 15 people who can communicate with 25 ballplayers." Cashen looks like a genius for his decision to replace Johnson with third-base coach Buddy Harrelson. In the ensuing six weeks the Mets have gone...
...success story -- a sort of Katarina Witt of East German industry. The five principal enterprises of this former state conglomerate -- Planeta, Plamag, Zirkon, Brehmer and Perfecta-will now be run separately. All make sophisticated printing equipment, and all are international leaders in their fields. Some other machine and machine-tool companies get good marks from Western bankers, including the Fritz Heckert plant in Chemnitz and parts of the October 7 group like the Niles gear-grinding machine company that had its origins in Niles, Ohio. The list of the tigers, though, is far shorter than the list of the dogs...
...young, the U.S. troops are only an unwelcome tool of American colonialism. Although radical students constitute a mere fraction of the population, their xenophobic views -- blaming the U.S. for everything from the % slow pace of democratization to the country's economic problems -- are winning sympathy from a growing number of Koreans...