Word: accomplishing
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Estimates vary wildly on what the bill will eventually accomplish. The Senate Energy Committee figures that the cost of gas to consumers will increase about 10% a year. Consumer groups that fought the bill claim there will be a 353% jump in prices between 1977 and 1985. The Department of Energy expects an annual increase in gas production of 2 trillion cu. ft.; the congressional budget office estimates an additional .7 to .8 trillion cu.ft. a year; consumer groups that favored the bill say no increase at all will occur. Both the Senate Energy Committee and DOE predict that...
...middle of the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, the island of Mauritius took several million years to develop animal forms that exist nowhere else in the world. But what nature can accomplish in eons, humanity can undo in millenniums, and that is exactly what the species Homo sapiens has done on Mauritius. By his own actions-and those of the animals he has introduced-man has already done away away the flightless black parrot, the giant Mauritian tortoise and the dodo, the huge bird whose very name has become synonymous with extinction. Now civilization threatens the rest of this island...
...noticed lacking within the department when he arrived. To correct this lack, Chafin says he will consult all members of the department prior to making major decisions, whenever possible. "My management approach is to ask for input right down the line of the best way, within reason, to accomplish a given task," he explains...
...critcism has come on the heels of the Bakke case which contends that Harvard does indeed strive for uniformity of "diversity." Justice Harry A. Blackmun, quoted in an article in "New Republic" by Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, says, "under a program such as Harvard's one may accomplish covertly what Davis concedes it does openly." Dershowitz also alleges that Harvard's system has always given weight to children of alumni and professors, who in the past have been a fairly homogenous (white) group. "It's hard to believe 7 per cent is an accident," he said last week...
...because gravity is so weak at long range, detecting its waves, says Harvard's Smarr, is "like measuring fluctuations in the dis tance between the earth and sun equal to the diameter of a human hair." So far no one has been able to accomplish that feat. But investigators in the U.S. and abroad are hoping to succeed with a new generation of extremely sensitive gravity detectors that rely on lasers, devices using superchilled metals and other advanced gadgetry...