Word: accomplish
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...Island Democrat Claiborne Pell, passed the Senate by a 68-to-28 count, barely 14 hours after the tax credit vote. After the Pell measure was okayed, Oklahoma Republican Henry Bellmon chided his colleagues, declaring: "I cannot imagine why we would pass two bills on two successive days to accomplish essentially the same objective." As it happens, the House-which approved its own $1.1 billion tax credit package June 1-has the President's proposal buried in committee. Its chances of passage seem...
...strategy may pay dividends, it has its hazards. The public may find it hard to buy the idea of a presidential David locked in combat with a congressional Goliath when Congress is controlled by the President's party. There is a limit to how much public relations can accomplish. Notes Ted Van Dyk, a longtime aide to the late Hubert Humphrey: "Image flows from policies and performance. If they aren't good, no imagemaker can repair the situation...
There will be another summit next year, it was agreed, probably in Tokyo. But the inability of past summits to accomplish much brought forth a question that haunted some of this year's participants: Has the world entered a new era of slow economic growth...
...possible that neckties accomplish a certain amount of symbolic good. A suit and tie make a rather democratic outfit; the richest men wear them, and so do the poorer when dressing up, even if they do not spend $600 to cover their nakedness. Class and regional distinctions are usually evident in choices, however. Consider the outfit, prevalent in Ohio, known as the "Full Cleveland": a bright blazer (red or green), plaid trousers, white shoes, white belt and white...
...total labor force. But when Fulton County Attorney Robert Young read the Supreme Court's Bakke ruling, he told the commissioners that parts of their new hiring plan were illegal. County affirmative-action officers, said Young, "would direct department heads not to hire whites. You can't accomplish a 4% [annual increase] for blacks without discriminating on the basis of race." Last week the commission decided (by a vote of five white to two black commissioners) to postpone action on the new program for two weeks while the county attorney seeks to modify the program...