Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When Kirkland House sets out to accomplish something, whether it's winning the Straus Cup or the energy contest, it pulls together in the most extraordinary way," he added...
...Victor would have envied," he measures success by the ability to keep clients on the right side of the bars. "It's frustrating," he admits, "and I don't handle frustration very well. If I have my IBM Selectric and a box of white paper I can accomplish something between sunrise and nightfall...
Hall said, "I think it's terribly unfair to leave the athletes' futures hanging because of a boycott which will accomplish nothing and possibly destroy the potential for future Olympics...
Credit controls and a balanced budget are Carter's methods of limiting demand. The balanced budget is a fetish likely to accomplish little. Carter himself points out that every budget but one since 1961 has run a deficit--yet we managed to sustain minimal inflation during many of those years. The $13 billion Carter wants to cut from the budget--even the $18 billion in cuts he mistakenly promised his national television audience--would not significantly cut inflation. John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, has said that "in a two-to-three-trillion dollar a year economy...
Thus the President could ask the board to put a ceiling on the dollar amount of loans that any bank could make, or restrict particular types of loans, or accomplish the same purpose indirectly by regulating ratios of banks' loans to their capital. He could ask that consumers be required to make larger down payments on purchases of houses, cars, refrigerators or indeed just about anything, and to pay the rest of the price more quickly...