Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writer's block, deprecation and obscurity. In that poignant volume the son could only compile small sorrows and acts of redemption. However acute, Exiles was the work of a miniaturist. In Passage to Ararat, Arlen set himself a near-Homeric task: the recovery of a forgotten people. To accomplish that mission he has performed a series of brilliancies: his research is irreproachable, his ear infallible. His writing retains a clarity and fury that animates each line. The tribes of the Bible leap from the page; the victims of mass murder speak out after decades of silence. Immigrants...
...bishops elsewhere, in the spirit of the Second Vatican Council, were becoming more approachable, Cody seemed to many priests to grow ever more remote and authoritarian. He did, however, accomplish a good deal. He rejuvenated the Catholic Charities program, established a pension fund and medical insurance for priests and lay employees, and created a Priests' Senate to consult with him. But as one of its members complained last week, "What is the purpose of consultation if the cardinal chooses to ignore everything that is recommended...
Morehouse's program is simple. In his view, adults whose skirts or trousers fit tightly are, if not actually overweight, then "overwaist," and need trimming. To accomplish this, they should first cut 200 calories out of their daily diets. Then they should exercise off 300 calories a day. Over a week, this would result in a "deficit" of 3,500 calories, about the same amount as in a pound of fat. "If you lose more than one pound a week, put it back on," Morehouse advises. "When you start sweating, you're working your body too hard...
...themselves during their working years to a slightly higher tax on incomes than other people would pay. The author also would have the Government ensure that every working American earns the equivalent of about half the national average income, or between $6,000 and $7,000. One way to accomplish that goal, says Okun, would be for all workers earning the $2.10-an-hour minimum wage to get a subsidy of half that much from Washington...
...accomplish this, New York's Montefiore Hospital 28 years ago inaugurated home care for the elderly with regular visits to the homebound by doctors, physical therapists and social workers. Since then, about 100 other hospitals across the country have set up similar programs. Three years ago, Montefiore branched out with an aftercare program, under which stroke, arthritis and cancer patients were brought to the hospital for follow-up treatments that doctors hope will eliminate the need for institutional care. Two years ago, the hospital helped set up a day-hospital program. It offers custodial care to those who have...