Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Laurence F. Letteri, president of the union, last week called the decision to hire Howland's firm "a promising development," other patrolmen said they think the study will not accomplish much...
...committee system, the Overseers should re-examine the whole system instead of censoring a fragment of it. Even an excellent program at the GSD or elsewhere at Harvard can surely benefit from the advice of experts in the field. An arbitrary and publicity sensitive governing board cannot hope to accomplish much in the spirit of improvement. The Overseers' recent action has set an unfortunate precedent that should not become a pattern...
...accomplish what Fayer has, most people would have needed many more years of training. However, the Grays Hall resident is one of those fortunate owners of sprawling natural talent. But that talent had to be developed. Fayer said her first coach, the head of a club team in Puerto Rico, began fine-tuning her ability by starting her in competitive swimming. "He motivated me to take swimming seriously by telling me that I had a chance to go places and do really well...
Resumption of trade-and later, U.S. diplomatic recognition-could accomplish even more than an aid program in helping Hanoi. The country is drawing up a sophisticated foreign investment code that would allow production-sharing agreements on natural resources, including oil, and up to 49% capitalist participation in other enterprises. Moreover, a group of visiting Japanese oil prospectors has been given the curious news that petroleum development was reserved for "the American sector." Observes one U.S. banker: "All the signals are there. They want to get back into the ball game, and the U.S. is the key to that...
Ralph refutes these charges by pointing to his work with Tsongas before 1975, "when," he says, "it was possible to accomplish something." In those years the commissioners reduced the patronage-ridden engineering department staff by more than one-third, cut the dog office from three men to one, pushed for the completion of the court house and closed the costly Middlesex County Training School, an institution for truant youths. Ralph says that McLaughlin's budget claims are "at very best a half truth" because the influx of federal revenue sharing funds in recent years has altered the county budget without...