Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Associated evidently believed that after this its RFC loan had been arranged. To New York banks, on the alert for good loans; to other utilitarians, who would like various pieces of Associated; to non-RFC New Deal utility watch dogs, Associated seemed overoptimistic about what the loan could accomplish...
...unauthorized strike must end completely. Once we accomplish that, the enemies of our union will no longer be able to make the charge that the U. A. W.C. I. O. is irresponsible. . . . Hasty strike votes, taken before the grievance machinery has been exhausted, may involve the local union in a course that may force it to strike, whether a strike is advisable or not. . . . There is no better way to wreck a local union than to permit small, irresponsible groups to shut down a plant employing thousands of workers. Where small groups threaten unauthorized action [i.e., sit-downs or slowdowns...
...accomplish this he runs three different workouts, one from November to the Christmas holidays, the other two during the winter months. For the first three weeks of the course general trunk strengthening exercises are given to 230-pound mammoths and 105-pound weaklings alike, after which specialized practices are employed to correct individual shortcomings...
...learn of more ways to throw a medicine ball than they had previously thought remotely conceivable, practice simulating pointer dogs, folding jackknives, and steel springs, contortions which the gray-haired director executes with the greatest ease, while his younger and potentially better adapted charges resemble octogenarians when attempting to accomplish the same maneuvers...
...long as Mme Lupescu remains in Rumania, nobody will be able to accomplish anything good. Through her meddling in politics, 13 Cabinets have followed on each other's heels. She is responsible for every evil in this country...