Word: accomplishing
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...first suggested-in his 1971 bestseller The Closing Circle-that U.S. industry be restructured to conform to ecology's unbending laws. Specifically, he recommended that polluting products (detergents, for example, or synthetic textiles) be replaced by good old natural ones (soap, or cotton and wool). Just how to accomplish such a major switch in industrial direction Commoner did not say and of course not much of what he hoped for came about. Now he is trying to close the circle in a different way. The Poverty of Power is a closely reasoned, adult primer on energy, examined in relation...
Real Reforms. These possibilities will remain if more and more Frenchmen become persuaded that only the left can accomplish a program of real reforms. Giscard's ability to prove them wrong is in doubt: politically, he has lately begun to pedal back to the right. Recently he awarded his Premier the title of "coordinator and animator" of the presidential majority parties in the Assembly. Because "Bulldozer" Chirac, 43, is a committed Gaullist, his new job was a signal that Giscard now sees more need to regain the conservative voters he has scared off than to continue...
...face of it, the students who walked out of the Geography building last week didn't accomplish much. They had failed to win any concrete concessions from the faculty in their demands for more Marxist instruction at the school, and had also abandoned their leading demand, the tenure of a Marxist economist who had not been rehired. But even while they sat in, the students had forced a minor "left-face" from the Clark faculty--something that never would have happened if they had not dislocated Appley for those ten days...
Concludes Wilson: "We have learned, I should think, that there are limits to what government can accomplish in human affairs generally and in criminal affairs particularly. It cannot export democracy, remold human character, revitalize families; nor can it rehabilitate in large number thieves and muggers...
...product of his environment and those who credit heredity. If, as Fleming maintains, those who credit heredity are growing in influence, that raises some troublesome questions. If the wonderful hope that we can change man by changing his surroundings is fading, what is left but genetic engineering to accomplish what even Adler admits education has not been able to bring about-a thoroughly improved human being...