Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...essential reason for these problems was that the U.S. tried to accomplish an uncommon amount and strained its resources of manpower, materials, machines and money. In 1966, the nation simultaneously expanded the war in Viet Nam, extended a host of domestic programs, and escalated its standard of living. Considering all the demands put upon it, the economy performed remarkably well. The output of goods and services, growing by well over $1 billion a week, swelled from $681 billion to $739 billion; the number of jobs rose by 2,200,000 and 75 million Americans were at work; the average income...
...easy to understand. Japanese techniques are more advanced than anywhere else in Asia, and Japanese surgeons make it a practice to keep au courant with the latest fashions in faces. Besides, Tokyo offers an advantage that local clinics cannot match: secrecy. Unless her name is Madame Ky, milady can accomplish and recover from all her rearrangements while her friends think she is on a three-week jaunt around Japan...
...circle when the target is a rectangle only 1 in. by 1½ in. To keep the X rays from fanning out, they must be "collimated"-made to follow parallel paths. In their machine, the Nashville dentists use a stainless-steel plate with a rectangular window to accomplish collimation; they also use much more shielding and a steel bracket to hold the film just where it ought to be, without subjecting the patient's hand to radiation. The result, according to PHS tests, is a radiation dose delivered to the skin only one-half to one-fourth that from...
...entire history of mankind to date has been achieved with the use of only the surface of the human mind," he said. "Just think what one generation could accomplish by using its entire capacity for consciousness...
...sell it cheaply to Cambridge afterwards, just as Harvard is doing with the Cambridge St. underpass. Variations on these suggestions for direct action by the schools are limitless, and there are other options. It is up to Harvard and M.I.T. to choose one or more which will accomplish the most as quickly as possible...