Word: tools
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...what he calls the "old days"--the late 1960s and early 1970s--financial aid was primarily for the poor. But as schools have become more competitive in the last decade, financial aid has become less and less of a tool to promote equality, he says...
...While the military has been under pressure from the civilian leadership to avoid human rights abuses in its counterinsurgency efforts, the paramilitaries have been a useful tool for those elements pursuing a "dirty war" against civilians suspected of supporting the guerrillas. Widely documented instances of the military's arming, training, organizing, equipping and sharing intelligence with the paramilitaries - and of those same paramilitaries gleefully massacring civilians - fueled resistance on Capitol Hill to an aid package supporting the armed forces...
...Seattle, but that means you can sight-see and sample local salmon washed down by a tangy microbrew. You can bring your bike along, at least as far as the Canadian border, stowing it on one of the Cascades' bicycle racks ($5 extra; reserve ahead), so you can tool around cycle-friendly Portland or Seattle...
...simply, technology--like democracy, language or gears--is a tool. We must understand how our tools work and whom they work for; this requires a great deal of time and the space for experimentation. A TECH center at Harvard, done properly, could give fascinating answers to these questions...
...Project ADAPT is all about getting more info from all levels of financial administration," Ross says. "In time, the different programs and processes may well become more streamlined, but in the meantime, the burden of identifying, and using, the correct reporting tool rests on the shoulders of each individual administrator...