Word: accomplish
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Many factors?earnings, accounting practices, taxes?discourage companies, often forcefully, from pressuring OPEC to hold down prices. That is something that the companies once managed with ease, but now no longer have much power to accomplish. Yet if they tried, they would be harming their own interests. The Sisters hold concessions in non-OPEC areas, like the British and Norwegian North Sea and Canada. Every time the cartel jabs up the price, up goes the value of the companies' holdings as well...
...rather than the rhetoric of a few individuals. Should Americans have ignored slavery (or continued to "debate" it) simply because a few abolitionists may have "exaggerated" the nature of that institution? Should we refuse to vote because candidates for office invariably exaggerate what we can reasonably expect them to accomplish. We are asked whether the Coalition has not in fact "exaggerated" claims about racial, class, and sexual oppression in the United States. We are invited to "discuss" rather than "boycott...
What Brown hoped to accomplish with his safari remained unclear. As an open but un declared candidate for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, he may have wanted to acquire some credentials on international matters. He did meet with the leaders of Ken ya and Liberia and was planning to go to Tan zania. The trip also gave Brown a chance to inspect environmental protection programs, something he passionately supports. At one visit to a United Nations project, he saw a map showing that the danger of arable land turning into desert is greater in California than in Kenya...
While Safran agrees that the Palestinian problem has not been resolved, he stresses that the treaty "gives the parties time to accomplish what they might not otherwise have been able to. The whole framework, indeed, could unravel. But the solidifying element of the American commitment will work in favor of an agreement on the Palestinian question." And Princeton's Fouad Ajami, a native of Lebanon, who is very sympathetic to the Palestinians, admits that the treaty surely places the Palestinians in no worse a situation than they were. Says he: "They were not going anywhere before the treaty...
...Stopping nuclear power may seem like an impossible job. Howard Zinn, a professor at Boston University said. "I think, though, that it is an impossible task we can accomplish," he said...