Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Race discrimination, of course, is minutely written into the statute books-an outgrowth of the Afrikaners' urge to codify. A prominent member of a South African foundation declares with an almost palpable wink: "We could strip apartheid legislation from the books and yet nothing need change. We could accomplish all the same things by local regulations or custom...
...that, these worthies can consider themselves lucky: they have at least had some running about to accomplish. Poor Gene Hackman is required to play a Polish general as if he were a Polish joke, while Ryan O'Neal, as General James Gavin, looks as if he is about to inquire, "Tennis, anyone?" like a summer-stock juvenile. As a general whose troops are surrounded almost the minute they hit the drop zone, Sean Connery is suitably glum. Liv Ullmann and Laurence Olivier play long-suffering Dutch locals caught up in all this boom-boom in humble, long-suffering style...
Solemn Commitment. During last year's campaign, Carter had pledged that he would gradually pull all U.S. ground forces out of Korea. After his inauguration, the President ordered studies of how best to accomplish this goal. When questioned about that decision at his Washington press conference last week, Carter explained: "The time has come for a very careful, very orderly withdrawal over a period of four or five years." He stressed that the U.S. would leave behind "adequate intelligence forces, observation forces, air forces, naval forces and a firm open commitment to our defense treaty." For these reasons, Carter...
...today weighs 4,200 Ibs.; by 1985 the average will be down to 3,100 Ibs.-320 Ibs. lighter than the company's average 1977 subcompact. Obviously the "large" car of 1985 will be a lot smaller than the behemoth of today. But GM hopes to accomplish much of the weight reduction by such methods as paring down the thickness of cylinder walls and engine blocks, using more lightweight aluminum and alloys, and expanding the use of front-wheel drive systems, which are more efficient than conventional rear-axle drives. Additionally, GM last week began construction of a plant...
...Massachusetts Center Repertory managed not only to raise $250,000 before the first-night curtain went up but also to gather together on its board of directors city hall politicians and Beacon Hill nabobs, to say nothing of Helen Hayes and Mrs. Curt Gowdy. Any group that can accomplish either of these feats ought to be able to survive Strindberg. Melvin Maddocks