Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reduction in the number of nominations needed is interesting because of one of the things it is likely to accomplish: a reduction in the influence of the Faculty's informal liberal and conservative caucuses, which each year nominate slates of candidates to the council each spring...
...hold the union-forming election before summer holidays begin in the Medical Area, in early June. At this rate, even with a decision in the union's favor by the NLRB regional director after he reads the record of the hearings, that will be a tough thing to accomplish...
while plotting his family's ruin, Count Cenci muses: "The difference between the villainies committed in real life and the villainies acted out on the stage is that in real life we do more and say less: while in the theater we talk endlessly and accomplish very little." Cenci proposes to restore the balance, but because of Artaud's limited idea of theater and the production's failings, his promise goes unfulfilled. The Cenci is mostly talk...
...promising that "after the film is over you don't find yourself making a hasty departure while scrupulously avoiding eye contact." The great success of these ploys, along with the material opulence and glibly amoral tone of the film, is a clue to what the movie was meant to accomplish. Jaeckin's premise and perhaps the only guiding principle of the film, is that there is a large, well-heeled audience out there that loves pornography, is too fastidious to seek out the crass version in the Combat Zone, and will pay through the teeth to have it served...
...Sinai and Golan Heights demilitarized zones expire. Gromyko obviously meant to use the Soviet-Syrian communiqué as a way to pressure Sadat, who so far has steadfastly resisted Soviet demands for talks in Geneva until he determines how much Kissinger's step-by-step strategy can accomplish...