Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result of Mrs. Gandhi's visit was primarily a new mood of increased warmth and understanding between the U.S. and India. She and the President decided during the week that they were going roughly in the same direction and that they could accomplish things together without making demands on each other. Mrs. Gandhi proved to be not only "a very proud, gracious and very able lady," as the President called her, but a fiercely independent ruler with a determination to equal his own. As if to illustrate that independence, she flew off from London in a Soviet plane...
What else did the hearings accomplish? Because Hubert Humphrey three weeks ago quoted the testimony of Columbia University Sinologist A. Doak Barnett that the U.S. was interested in "containment without isolation" of Red China, many people assumed that the Administration had made a switch in policy. It was hardly that, because China has not been isolated, and certainly not by the U.S. In testimony last week, Professor George Taylor, a University of Washington Asia expert, pointed out that, far from being isolated, Peking has diplomatic relations with 48 nations. "It is Peking that is trying to isolate us," said Taylor...
...Motors executives decided to counterattack. The corporation retained a Washington law firm, which in turn paid out $6,700 to hire Vincent Gillen, a onetime FBI agent turned private detective with headquarters in Manhattan. Gillen sent his agents a frank letter about what they were supposed to try to accomplish. "Our job," he wrote, "is to check Nader's life and current activities, to determine what makes him tick, such as his real interest in safety, his supporters if any, his politics, his marital status, his friends, his women, boys, etc., drinking, dope, jobs, in fact all facets...
...closed in. The Republicans, though polite enough in the hearing room, were aggressive in presenting their own poverty program on the House floor. Proposing to allocate most of OEO's functions to other agencies, G.O.P. critics denounced Shriver's agency as a "fuddle factory," claimed they could accomplish more with $200 million less. More flak came from an unexpected source, Democratic Representative Edith Green of Oregon, who disclosed that the cost of keeping a single boy in the Job Corps for one year is $9,120-substantially more than previous estimates...
...short, the city is probably not yet ready for the crusading liberal. First its warring factions must be united and the damage of the past four years undone. This is what the new chairman of the School Committee is trying to accomplish...