Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about six weeks ago to convert the Soviet Union from an in-and-out, market-disrupting buyer of U.S. grain to a steady customer that makes regular purchases in agreed-on amounts. Last week in Moscow, U.S. and Soviet negotiators signed a five-year agreement that should accomplish that goal and lessen the inflationary impact of future Soviet buying by enabling markets to anticipate it. In contrast to the furious criticism that has greeted past U.S. grain sales to the Soviets, this deal satisfied almost everyone except American farmers who wanted no limits of any kind on how much...
...like the Boeing 7475P, which can serve those markets nonstop. Yet it may have trouble obtaining massive long-term financing for any new equipment until, as Seawell puts it, "we return to a sustained level of profitability and get some meat on our bones." One way Pan Am might accomplish that is by merging with another carrier and acquiring domestic routes, but it has unsuccessfully explored mergers with TWA, Eastern and American. For the time being, at least, it seems clear that Pan Am will have to continue the battle for sustained profitability...
What would that accomplish for the consumer who has a savings account, an insurance policy and a credit card? Hardly anything, say critics of the Government's action. If a bank and an insurance company want to conspire, say, to fix interest rates on loans, they can do it without having the same person serve as a director of both. On the other hand, insurance companies in particular have been anxious to put bankers on their boards, claiming that the bankers have more expert knowledge of what loans are wise; prohibiting the practice, they say, would deny policyholders...
...change seems to have resulted partly from Rosovsky's confidence, once the study got going, that it was actually going to accomplish things. That the various task forces carrying out the study have the potential to make major statements, though, is less important than their feeling that such a statement is needed. Rosovsky and the committee members' mere perception of that need says several interesting things--that Harvard's problems are not unique to Harvard; that there is in fact some sort of national drift in undergraduate education; and that the American educational community is sufficiently unified and reverent...
...step removes the immediate threat that oil companies would lift the price of their products suddenly and sharply. But it still leaves Congress and the Administration at odds over how best to cut oil consumption, boost domestic production, and make the U.S. less dependent on foreign crude. To accomplish these goals, the Administration favors a gradual increase in prices to be achieved by phased decontrol. The Democratic majority in Congress, stressing the inflationary dangers of letting oil prices rise, prefers to put greater emphasis on import quotas and allocation programs...