Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...random officer of the National Guard wandered into in terim President Urcuyo's bunker seeking written permission for his son to leave the country, the President pounced upon him to serve as a liason between the government and the new junta. Within several hours, the officer managed to accomplish what neither the U.S., Sandinists, nor Urcuyo had been equal to: establishing communications between the groups, and setting up direct negotiations...
After his appointment as Energy Secretary last week, Duncan, a proven team player and a warm but not close friend of the President's, declared: "The task ahead of me is clear, to implement an energy program that will accomplish the objectives set forth by the President." A vital part of that program, he added, is nuclear energy, which "is now playing and will continue to play a very substantial role...
...shortage of oil and to make that shortage more acute by holding back production. The response of the industrial nations, a forced limit on petroleum imports, will, their leaders agree, bring about a lowering of living standards. In the immediate future, the U.S. most likely will be able to accomplish its goal of holding imports to 8.5 million bbl. per day only by taking one of two harsh steps: either rationing gasoline or eliminating price controls on it. The former would lead to a bureaucratic mess; the latter would probably aggravate inflation. The choice is hard...
...taking some chances and paying some costs. What is needed, of course, is to lessen immediately the country's umbilical dependence on crude oil from the cartel. Slackened demand could loosen the market, make OPEC nervous and start a rush by its members to sell. The ways to accomplish that are well known and many, for there is no single miracle stroke against OPEC...
...self-styled moderate OPEC members are talking of a double-digit increase. Saudi Arabia promises to try to "hold the line" with a raise of a mere 20% to 25%, arguing that this will remove the need for premiums and surcharges. But only a sharp increase in production will accomplish that, and so far the Saudis have given no sign of being willing to boost their output of 8.5 million bbl. per day by more than...