Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reserves in poor shape when recalled to active duty last year as part of the Berlin buildup. He is now working on a plan to create a few combat-ready, top-priority reserve divisions and units that would be kept fully manned, fully trained and fully equipped. To accomplish this, McNamara is more than willing to let the remaining reserves lapse into a lesser state of readiness...
...time-tested model similar to those used in U.S. nu clear submarines, will drive the ship at a speed of 21 knots. One problem for the Savannah designers was to shield the $10 million reactor so that a collision with another ship would not release death dealing radiation. To accomplish this, the ship's nuclear engineers encased the reactor in reinforced bulkheads, extra-heavy plating, a 2-ft.-thick "collision mat" made of layers of steel and redwood, and some 2,000 tons of lead and concrete...
DeGuglielmo warned, however, that "what we have done in the past is not enough." He stressed that "the City Manager must work with each individual member of the Council to accomplish even more for Cambridge in the future...
Lipstick & Minesweepers. Whatever the local politicians might eventually accomplish in Goa, the immediate problems were economic. Goa's virtually duty-free status sent swarms of Indian soldiers into shops stocked with inexpensive foreign luxury items seldom seen in India because of the government's stringent import restrictions. Shopkeepers did a brisk business in transistor radios, cameras, electric appliances, cosmetics, perfumes, wines. In one Pangim shop alone, Indian soldiers bought 1,400 Max Factor lipsticks. Truckloads of refrigerators were purchased by army officers for shipment home. But the days of the modest boom are numbered. High on the agenda...
...dying, nor is it behaving very differently from its usual form. Instead of either gloom or wrath, the week's events should have evoked a new, realistic appraisal of what the U.N. really is and what it can accomplish...