Word: accomplishing
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Accordingly, he says, we should not expand our forces, but retrench them. Ravenal would accomplish this by moving from the United States' present "triad" of nuclear forces to a "dyad." The U.S. should keep its bombers and submarines, he insists, but remove all its land-based missiles (veritable "sitting ducks," as he calls them) as they become more vulnerable to attack...
...project nears its November termination date, HIID officials admit that Harvard's work in Iran has been less than successful. David C. Cole, associate director of the Institute for Overseas Projects, concedes the Teheran effort "has not been a very effective project. We haven't been able to accomplish very much...
...Economist D. Gale Johnson is concerned that at $3 a bu., the target price for wheat will be "an incentive to expand production. The cost of the program will get so high that it will have to be modified." Others argue that the 20% set aside for wheat will accomplish little, since farmers will withdraw their less productive land and concentrate on planting high-yield acreage. In fact, some Agriculture Department officials project that even a full 20% set-aside program will cut production by no more than 8%. There is also some question as to whether the cutbacks were...
Some Western analysts believe that Wang's next assignment will be to prevent the reoccurrence of the widespread strikes, riots and armed rebellions that have plagued the country since it be came clear that Hua was winning the leadership struggle. To accomplish this he can call on at least a half-million security troops under his command. He apparently also supervises several secrecy-shrouded police organizations; these include the dreaded Ministry of Public Security, which maintains Peking's totalitarian rule, partly through the aid of a vast system of forced-labor camps, where millions are imprisoned...
...given up the idea of driving Israel into the sea. Lately, even their hazy notion of a secular state of Palestine embracing Arabs, Jews and Christians has also faded (although Israel's Begin, if he manages to annex the West Bank and its 650,000 Arabs, may yet accomplish something like that...