Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French discussions ended last week than G.E. executives moved on to Milan to extend that base. Italy's Olivetti, which makes small computers and office machines and is also having difficulties, is anxious for the same sort of help. Preparing to extend it, G.E. seemed likely to accomplish more by its two bits of bargaining than it had managed in two years of independent marketing in Europe...
...STRIKE Command is conducting the exercise, is certain that it is. Puffing on a cigar in his air-conditioned trailer at Needles, Calif., Adams, 57, who bears a striking resemblance to the original "Desert Fox," German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, explained: "There are lots of things we try to accomplish in an exercise like this. It's the first time we've been able to get a proper training area for the armored divisions for ten or twelve years now-where they will encounter the tactical and maintenance problems they would find in a real combat operation...
...High Dam will accomplish all this by harnessing the Nile's flood-that annual, June-to-October inundation of silt and water that since the beginning of history has brought life and uncertainty to Lower Egypt. Not only does the rain-fed flood vary in volume year by year, producing the "seven fat years and seven lean years," but at best spills some 9 billion gallons of fresh water into the sea annually, often leaving Egypt's cash crops of cotton and cane thirsty between floods...
...committee accused the Board of Education not only of failing to "stimulate even slight progress toward desegregation" but of letting segregation get worse in recent years. Whether Allen's advisers will accomplish anything more is mostly a matter of money and time. The state plan would cost an extra $250 million a year (current school budget: $840 million), and it could easily take a decade to fulfill...
...higher taxes and support churches-in direct conflict with the First Amendment's prohibition against laws "respecting an establishment of religion." All 50 states, including Maryland, repeat this prohibition in some form in their own constitutions. Yet 33 state constitutions also make church property taxfree. All other states accomplish the same end under other statutes...