Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...preparing a set of proposals for Congress that would tighten requirements for entering these programs. Such changes, OMB estimates, would save as much as $1 billion in fiscal 1980. HEW, which has learned that it must absorb one-third of the overall budget cut, cannot possibly accomplish that without changes in basic programs...
With the time gained by temporary protectionist measures and a subsistence diet of subsidies, Europe's threatened industries must accomplish a formidable task of rejuvenation. In West Germany, Strukturwandel (structural change) is constantly on the lips of industrialists, politicians, economists and union bosses. The term covers a variety of measures: a switch to profitable products, heavy investment in machinery, "rationalization," or reduction of labor forces where warranted, the retraining of surplus workers, even a shift of emphasis in the education system away from the humanities to technical training in new industries. "Our industry must manufacture goods that others...
Nelson will not "sing, streak, or ask for spare change" today, and will achieve nothing and accomplish nothing except for making this point-"that it is possible, amidst all this activity, to stop," Nelson said yesterday...
...Kent Waldrop, 24, of Grand Prairie, Texas, is thankful to be able to stand again, and particularly grateful to the Russians who helped him accomplish this task. Waldrop was paralyzed after a football injury at the University of Texas, and his doctors said there seemed to be nothing they could do. But a Leningrad hospital offered him special treatment, which was successful in allowing him, after four years of confinement to a wheelchair, to stand in a walker...
...didn't accomplish all that by smiling sweetly at the other team. In fact, the Brynteson that sprints up and down the wings, booms crosses and corner kicks in front of the opposing team's goalposts, steals the ball from defenders with crushing tackles and mumbles occasional expletives under her breath during games, is a far fiercer creature than the Bryntson that confronts the reporter on the sideline...