Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During a few hours, 680 people were killed and $400 million worth of what is abstractly known as "property damage" occurred. The statistics, of course, are nothing compared with what men at war easily accomplish. But the hurricane's figures of destruction exceed those of other legendary American disasters: the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 (480 dead, $350 million damage) and the Chicago fire of 1871 (200 dead, $200 million damage...
...widely known that the SftP, cooperating with other groups, has agitated for several years for close monitoring of genetic engineering research and its relegation to a lower priority. He cites an SftP pamphlet published years ago that dealt with the hazards of genetic engineering long before the technology to accomplish it existed, and a barrage of letters and critiques sent out to scientific conferences, government agencies, and public interest groups...
...federal programs more efficient and "compassionate"?a favorite word in his political lexicon. He vows one of his first missions in the White House would be to root out Washington's "horrible bureaucratic mess" by reducing some 1,900 federal agencies to about 200. Just how he would accomplish this wonder he has not said...
...assigned to Panmunjom, while South Koreans patrol the rest of the DMZ. The American volunteers-specially chosen for their conspicuous brawn and even tempers-serve 13-month tours of duty at the "truce village" of Panmunjom, where 379 vituperous sessions of the Military Armistice Commission have regularly failed to accomplish anything. At a long wooden table that is half in the North Korean and half in the South Korean zone, North Korean and Chinese representatives argue fiercely with Americans representing the U.N. Command. Of the 35,000 truce violations charged to them in the past 23 years, the North Korean...
...anachronistic. Integrity is essential in the development of leader-soldiers." Indeed, Berry and many other high-ranking officers, including non-West Pointers, agree that the honor code serves an absolutely irreplaceable function, as do the more lenient codes at Annapolis and the Air Force Academy. All three academies accomplish their main purpose: they produce well-trained and dedicated officers...