Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even Cohen admits that there is a limit to what he can accomplish. "You don't want your psych professor sounding like Henny Youngman," he says. "That would be too jarring...
...Problem. The explanation for Kissinger's Middle Eastern visits was not just a semantic nicety: the Secretary had indeed a lot of work to accomplish before returning to Washington. Essentially, he needed to find out whether or not his hopes for a continuation of gradual, bilateral negotiations between Israel and its Arab neighbors had been dashed by the Rabat summit. There, the leaders of the Arab world had shunted Jordan's King Hussein aside and declared that the Palestine Liberation Organization (TIME cover, Nov. 11) had their backing to set up an "independent national authority" on any occupied...
...year three much ballyhooed international gatherings-the U.N. special session on raw materials, the Conference on the Law of the Seas held in Caracas and the World Population Conference in Bucharest-degenerated into forums for political posturing and adjourned without taking any significant action. For the Rome conference to accomplish more than the others, the so-called less developed countries (L.D.C.s) will have to resist the temptation to blame the world's ills on the former colonial powers...
...Radcliffe-Harvard Women's Center is the latest addition to the list of University women's organizations, and, at least in theory, it will accomplish what no previous organization has even attempted: the common involvement of all women affected by the University--undergraduates and graduate students, employees and faculty members, and even women who just live in the Cambridge area...
...moves now in prospect seem unlikely to do much more than keep the housing slump from getting still worse -if they accomplish even that. Fundamentally, the industry is caught in a terrible dilemma. It is peculiarly vulnerable to inflation; housing is the pressure point at which soaring costs of land, labor, materials and maintenance all converge. But housing is even more vulnerable to federal efforts to fight inflation by restricting the supply of credit, because both home builders and buyers rely so heavily on borrowed money. And a continuing squeeze on credit by the Federal Reserve Board-though a slightly...