Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Competition from the jumbo jet aside, Shurcliff doubts that many passengers would want to pay the extra fare for a three-hour saving on a transatlantic flight. Improving the ground access to airports would accomplish the same time saving at much less cost, he feels. Oother investigators agree that consumer demand will be considerably less than current predictions. B. K. Lundbergh, a Swedish scientists, published a report last month on the problem of "dead time," the fact that the short flight time will make night flights to Europe extremely unpopular, since passengers would no longer be able to plan...
...perplexes Americans is the political caution inherent in a limited war. "It is not civilian control that the intelligent military man objects to," said the army general who ran the World War II Manhattan Project, Leslie Groves, in 1959. "It is the constant interference with the operations necessary to accomplish the missions assigned. The wise housekeeper stays out of the kitchen when the cook is preparing dinner." The grand philosopher of warfare, Prussian General Karl von Clausewitz, approached the question from quite a different perspective. "The subordination of the political point of view to the military would be unreasonable...
Today, four Vanguard records and over 300 tour dates later, Watson is located dead-center in the forward thrust of country music toward highbrow as well as lowbrow respectability. The very impurity of his style, coupled with the exhilaration his work generates, goes a long way to accomplish this aim. Like a select few before him (John Jacob Miles, Travis, Clarence Ashley), he forms a bridge between America's primitive folk heritage and the sophisticated listener...
...their pursuit of more specilaized training are, in the view of the survey team, necessary reforms in the ordering of existing and new programs. All students should be admitted to a balanced program of studies, including some electives, at the beginning of their university careers. One possible way to accomplish this is to combine the present Faculties of Letters, Science and some of the functions of the Faculty of Law into a common program combining humanities, social sciences, foreign languages, mathematics, and natural sciences. Professional faculties should then establish criteria in terms of numbers of years to be required...
...been laboring undramatically for years, and in some cases for decades, to secure for the Negro a more equitable share of America's affluence. "These are the people who can do more," says Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke, the first Negro in the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction. "They can accomplish something that the militants cannot...