Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many Colombians are simply throwing up their hands. Eugenio GÓmez GÓmez, a member of Valencia's own party, flatly turned down the President's invitation to be Minister of Public Works in the new Cabinet. "What in the world could I accomplish in the nine months before elections?" he asked. "I'm a serious person." Even the presidential campaign has ground to a halt. Under the seven-year-old Liberal-Conservative coalition, which alternates the presidency every four years, the Liberals are due for office next time around. Four months ago, however...
...member of Farm Bureau." Given the chance, Shuman might try. The Farm Bureau is a way of life to him, and his commitment is wholehearted. Says he: "It's going to take complete and total sacrifice in the Farm Bureau if we're going to accomplish our objectives...
...blink; Cooper discovered that the trouble was a short circuit, repaired it with a three-inch-long screwdriver. Conrad fixed a pneumatic belt that was wrapped around his thigh in order to stimulate his heartbeat and circulation. Even when necessary components failed beyond repair, the astronauts managed to accomplish many of their assignments. Although a faulty fuel-cell system prevented them from making their planned rendezvous with another object in space, the astronauts maneuvered their craft with such precision that they could have sought out and entered the orbit of another vehicle...
...Great Society. The Best. At the National Institutes of Health in suburban Bethesda, Md., where he signed a bill authorizing a $280 million program of medical research, Johnson quoted from the Bible (Acts 8: 5-7) on curing the palsied and the lame, promised that "this bill will accomplish the miracles of which today we only dream." His Administration's goal, he said, is nothing less than "complete eradication" of children's deaths from rheumatic fever, substantial reduction of the rate of death from heart disease, and elimination of malaria and cholera "from the entire world...
Cutbacks & Credits. Labor's latest program aims to accomplish three long-sought objectives: reduction of imports, increase of exports, and dampening of inflationary domestic demand...