Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rules have one obvious advantage. They will help create a core of non-science concentrators well-trained in mathematics. Knowledge that such students exist might induce top-flight professors to teach sophisticated upper-level Gen Ed courses in the Natural Sciences. No other inducement has been able to accomplish this, and the CEP plan is worth...
Barely a month ago, Juscelino Kubitschek, the ex-President who had been stripped of his political rights, returned to Brazil from 16 months of self-exile in Paris. Only he knows what he hoped to accomplish. Arriving immediately after gubernatorial elections in which his P.S.D. party scored impressive victories, he might even have expected his dramatic reappearance to trigger a popular counterrevolution against President Castello Branco's revolutionary government. What it provoked was the anger of the linha dura (hardline) military officers behind Castello Branco and a harsh new Institutional Act (TIME, Nov. 5), which dissolved all political parties...
...bleak offering of existentialism. "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem," wrote Albert Camus, "and that is suicide." In other words, why stay alive in a meaningless universe? The existentialist replies that man must live for the sake of living, for the things he is free to accomplish. But despite volumes of argumentation, existentialism never seems quite able to justify this conviction on the brink of a death that is only a trap door to nothingness...
Converting a command economy into an incentive economy is hard enough; it is doubly difficult to get managers to think for themselves in a country in which Stalinism and central authority are still deeply ingrained. The East German regime is trying to accomplish it by turning over more responsibility to a new generation of younger technocrats. The new Minister for Foreign Trade, Horst Sölle, is 41, and many plant managers are now between 25 and 40. While such men are sometimes critical of the East German economy, what they fault is not the totalitarian system...
...contents are undeniable facts ... It is a masterpiece, and should accomplish the purpose for which it was written."--Thomas L. Clarke, Justice of the Peace, Brown City, Michigan...