Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...similar scenes. Reason: almost all of Boston's 4,950 public school teachers were out on strike. The walkout-in defiance of a state law prohibiting strikes by public employees-effectively paralyzed Boston's 162 schools and produced a result that protests and boycotts had failed to accomplish. It crippled the city's massive busing program (TIME, Sept...
...America." But it needs to be made safer, cleaner and less wasteful of energy. So the Transportation Secretary urges improved cars and local policies to encourage motorists to stay off the roads during rush hours. Better traffic management, car pooling and parking lots near mass transit lines can accomplish...
...also evident at the university. But you and I know that institutions tend to resist change and the older they are the more resistant to change they become. There is now a great deal of good will toward Jews at this university, but good will by itself will accomplish little. It is our task as the interested group to indicate to the university that the separation between Jews and Judaism is undesirable because it is offensive and harmful to Jews, and therefore to the university...
...newsman's right to protect his sources and 5) persuaded one of them to come forward and give evidence at a murder trial while 6) rescuing her from incipient alcoholism. As no more than a few seconds of screen time are devoted to the sermonettes which accomplish these miracles, one must believe that the people whose lives he touches are all hermits who have never seen any of the TV shows or movies from which the incidents have been borrowed. Or that Cooper has paranormal powers of persuasion applied when the camera is not running. The latter...
Last week CBS and the Block Drug Co. combined to make the unlikeliest gunfighters since Batman and Robin. Together they had stood off the 1 million-strong National Rifle Association and its allies, the firearms manufacturers and game-preserve associations. That is more than Congress has been able to accomplish...