Word: accomplishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concept under which South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Khanh proposes to roll back the Viet Cong by painstakingly securing small areas, then winning over the peasants through reforms. Last week TIME Correspondent Eric Pace visited one clear-and-hold project deep in the Mekong Delta, saw what the strategy can accomplish-and the huge obstacles to its success. His report...
...magic of the imagination redeems life: "Art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of choice, but in a world that changes more swiftly than we can perceive there is always the danger that our powers of selection will be mistaken and that the vision we serve will come to nothing. We admire decency and we despise death, but even the mountains seem to shift in the space of a night and perhaps the exhibitionist at the corner of Chestnut and Elm streets is more significant than the lovely...
...Triple Subsidy for cotton, recently passed, calls for annual expenditures in excess of six hundred million dollars to accomplish these general purposes: support the price of raw cotton to bolster the income of cotton farmers; subsidize the export of U.S. cotton by paying a fixed sum per pound to American exporters so they can match the much-lower world price; subsidize U.S. textile mills by paying them enough so they can afford to buy the price-supported, export-subsidized domestic stuff...
...attitude adds up, at least for the present, to good tactics. They recall that he had to be drafted to run for Governor in 1962, accepted the nomination only after feuding branches of Pennsylvania's Republican Party agreed to work together under his leadership. If Scranton could accomplish the same result with national Republicans, he would almost certainly be the party's strongest presidential candidate. It has been said repeatedly that Scranton must become better known among Republicans outside his own state. Yet reams have been written about him; he recently made a skillful Meet the Press appearance...
...possibility: since state government can in many areas accomplish more and do the job better than the central government, "why can't the Federal Government turn over to the states a percentage of the taxes now collected by Washington...