Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...business, or handle our problems with our adversaries effectively. His latest figure [for reducing the rise in the defense budget] is $5 billion to $6 billion. There isn't a single knowledgeable person in this business who says it's possible -and achieve what we have to accomplish in maintaining the peace or meeting any challenge. You just...
Freshman Daphne Georas says "it's so ultra-preppy rowing for the Radcliffe crew on the Charles River in Cambridge. But it's just something I've always wanted to do, and I love it." Another crew member, Cathy Vance, says "it's a discipline which you try to accomplish; it's an attempt to improve yourself." Another woman says she finds the "physical activity a needed change from the academic life which takes up so much of the rest...
...Richard Schickel has appropriately been cast as writer and coproducer of the show; he was LIFE'S cinema critic and resident film historian. Unlike some film anthologies, L.G.T.T.M. does not spend all its time gazing in a rearview mirror. "From the beginning," says Schickel, "we set out to accomplish much more than an exercise in nostalgia. Our aim was the same as LIFE'S-to reflect actuality as well as art, to show both the inner and the outer realities." That reflection is caught in every segment of the show: newsreels are continually interspersed with cuts from memorable...
...effect, then, the solvency of the leading American defense contractor rested upon its ability to accomplish a sale in the international market of civilian aircraft. The Lockheed case dramatically illustrates the fact that critical elements of the American economy have outgrown the geographical confines of the United States. The aerospace industry can no longer be economically defined in terms of the American market. Its sales effort, to succeed, must be international in scope; in Lockheed's case, its 60,000 jobs, $650 million in private bank financing, $250 million in U.S. government backed guarantees, all seemingly hinged upon the success...
...Evening News, he outlined the Lockheed sales campaign in detail. The crux of the problem for Lockheed was to persuade All Nippon Airlines to postpone a decision to buy the McDonnell-Douglas DC 10 and then arrange for All Nippon to buy the Lockheed Tristar, instead. In order to accomplish this objective, Kotchian undertook to penetrate the very top level of Japanese political decision making. He enlisted the aid of Lockheed's secret agent in Japan, Yoshio Kodama, a leader of the ultra-right wing nationalist faction of Japanese politics, a man with close ties to conservative elements...