Word: accomplishing
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That is a generous assessment of what the pardon might accomplish. Yet the very existence of a lost man?and Richard Nixon, whatever his remaining perquisites or power, is a lost man ?impels a compassionate society to hope that the rift between it and him can somehow be healed. Such a hope stems not from mere pity, but from self-recognition. Each of us is to a degree lost, tied to the rest of humanity?and to God?by fragile strands of grace, strands that fray and break. Pardon is a favor that we may sometimes...
...tours of the temple, which one Washington newsman has called "a bleached Emerald City of Oz," should certainly accomplish that. Although the exterior of the temple is striking-288 ft. tall from the ground to the tip of the Angel Moroni's trumpet and encased in 173,000 sq. ft. of gleaming white Alabama marble-the interior does not inspire awe. Divided into dozens of rooms on nine levels, the temple has nothing comparable to the great nave and towering sanctuary of a traditional Christian cathedral. Indeed, the Mormon temple is not built for regular worship (that purpose...
...Cambridge committee has Herculean tasks to accomplish. It has to get the support of at least half, and preferably more, of the 3000 or so University clerical workers in Cambridge, a group that is spread out among hundreds of offices and whose composition is constantly changing. Schroder estimates that a union-forming vote among the clerical workers is still two years away...
...would building the proposed mass-transit system accomplish much; at best, says Rand, going that route would yield "insignificant further improvements in air quality...
Greenspan entertains no fanciful notions about what he can accomplish in his new advisory role. "I'm not sure what can or has to be done," he says with characteristic candor. But he does know that a drop in crude-oil prices would do wonders to ease world financial imbalance. And, as a sharp foe of controls, he enthusiastically supports the Administration's anti-inflationary policy of laissez-faire. He will press hard for reduced Government spending aimed at balancing the budget in fiscal '76. To Greenspan, budget deficits are the incendiary fuel of inflation; they force...