These are basic tools for the historian, but are agonizingly complex and excruciatingly controversial.
Weather derivatives are the basic tools for managing the risks that weather poses to businesses.
F-Spot includes basic tools for editing, organizing, printing and sharing photos.
Physical chemistry and thermodynamics are basic tools for understanding mineral origin.
Robust clinical epidemiology – the basic tools for collecting and interpreting the clinically meaningful data – should never stop being a necessary criterion for publishing applied medical science.
Such equations are basic tools for engineers and for people developing computer models of economies and societies, but they are notoriously difficult to solve.
The Americans have been stingy on even the more basic tools for guerrilla warfare, like helicopter gunships and night-vision goggles, which Pakistan has requested for the past three years, Pakistani military officials say.
Internet services like America Online provide basic tools for members to make Web pages that can then be stored in the free server space that comes with the user's account.
But the company is also offering a free program called MyLogger (it can be downloaded at Virage's Web site, www.virage.com) that incorporates some of Virage's basic tools for searching images and transcripts.
Along with long-handled tongs, fire-resistant gloves, an instant-read thermometer and a broad stainless steel spackle knife from a hardware store (narrower and stronger than most spatulas), it's one of the basic tools for grilling over wood.
