Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...embarrassingly good terms with Israel at a bad moment. Privately, the Egyptians were furious at the Syrians for having undermined President Anwar Sadat's attempts to ease tensions in the area. As one high government official told TIME: "They have called a Security Council debate that will accomplish nothing but has given the Israelis an excuse to get tough...
Ironically, economics may accomplish what Nader and his allies have so far failed to do with their safety campaign: to put a halt to the construction of new nuclear power plants. In the early days of nuclear power, scientists forecast that the electricity from nukes would be "too cheap to meter." Today, points out Nuclear Opponent David Dinsmore Comey, the economic advantage "has turned out to be an illusion...
...Egypt and Syria stabilized, Israel had lost more men than in any war since 1948. "I should have listened to the warnings of my heart and ordered a call-up," she now admits. For Israel's First Lady, a homebody at last in her Tel Aviv semidetached, the accomplish ments and the anecdotes cannot cloak the final...
Dean Rosovsky, working with faculty financial planners and Champion's office, has projected that the Faculty will pull out of the red for 1976-77. Rosovsky is counting heavily on the Harvard College Fund and other alumni donation plans to help the Faculty accomplish its goal, because government and foundation funding have fallen off steeply in the past few years...
...what it must have been like to belong to such a family and such a religion at such a time. Conveying vividly the exact feel of unfamiliar territory is a job almost exclusively performed by journalists. But as Chaim Potok (The Chosen) reminds us, the fact that novels can accomplish that task superlatively is one of the reasons why they are still written-and read...