Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beechcraft Bonanza, which he pilots himself to sales meetings. Son of a Baptist preacher, McCracken still finds time to do some lay preaching. "There is more than just a commercial reason for being in any business," he says. "I'm just lucky that I'm able to accomplish so much good in mine...
...steel mills, branched into oil drilling. Since Ende took over, Salzgitter's annual sales have increased by an astonishing 475%. though they are leveling off this year. ''You have to compliment Ende for his drive," says a competitor. "Look at what he has been able to accomplish with that lousy...
Each professor (most were members of the senior Faculty) was primarily interested in giving his students a kind of intellectual experience they were unlikely to meet in lower-level courses. Each had a highly individual notion of how to accomplish this, and the predictable result was that a Faculty meeting that Spring heard the program described as representing "many different . . . educational philosophies and departments." Bundy, tacitly acknowledged to be the spiritual overseer of the seminars once they got under way, approved thoroughly, like the educational pluralist he was. Nobody, in fact, controlled them at all--if one discounts the passive...
...Roberts' writing on student politics both informed and perceptive, I take serious exception to the thesis of his article in the latest Bookshelf ("Political Activity Gives Students Sense of Significance"). As Mr. Roberts would have it, "maturity came to student politics" when the disoriented radicals decided that they could accomplish more in the precincts than on the picket lines. In his view, student politics came of age intellectually and politically when the peace marchers gave up "waving signs and singing songs" in favor of "stuffing envelopes and pushing doorbells for Prof. Hughes (and) Rep. William Fitts Ryan...
Sputtering Disorder. As the 20 men of UNTEA, the United Nations Temporary Executive Authority, set up shop under Guatemala's Jose Rolz-Bennett, not even the most optimistic expected that they could accomplish much during their seven caretaker months. Already more than two-thirds of the territory's 17,000 Dutch have gone, despite UNTEA offers to many doubling their salaries. Left in the hands of ill-trained Papuan natives, administration is in a state of sputtering disorder. In Hollandia the water supply is polluted, telephone and mail services have been disrupted, and communication with the interior...