Word: accomplished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fulfill its peace-keeping role as long as it is merely a collection of sovereign nations subject to big power veto -which is what it obviously is destined to remain. At best, the U.N. can shorten wars and arrange precarious truces. Lately it has not even been able to accomplish that. The comforting cliche about the U.N. is that it is better than nothing, that at least it provides a place where belligerents can talk. That remains true, but the comfort is wearing thin. The trouble is that one keeps thinking of it as a separate entity with a conscience...
...British-cut suit, a monogrammed shirt with a PT-109 clip holding his tie, Kennedy trots rather than walks into his office to begin his daily race of trying to keep up with a schedule jammed with more interviews, hearings, appointments, speeches and votes than any man could realistically accomplish...
...Ackermann's biggest job will not be keeping the liberal school Committee members together--they get along and are reasonably settled on issues--but rather trying to accomplish the same thing on the Council, where it will be her duty to keep such divergent types as Saundra Graham, on one hand, and Robert Moncreiff and Henry Owens, on the other, working and voting as a group...
...culmination of this selling campaign of course, is the highly successful ABC television series. "The FBI," now in its seventh season. The FBI collaborated in producing the series with a precise calculation of what it could accomplish for the Bureau, and it maintains particularly strict controls over the series. It gave permission for the show--which a number of studios had been seeking since television began--at a time when criticism of the FBI was rising, from citizens who suggested that the Bureau had been derelict in protecting President Kennedy and providing protection to civil rights workers in the South...
This season's schedule will remain unaffected. "Cancellation of this year's games would accomplish nothing but disappointment for our hockey players," Watson said, "because it appears that we would be unable to fill the vacated dates...