Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...help accomplish this goal, the President rightly stressed the need for more effective use of workers and machines to improve the nation's sagging productivity, but he offered no suggestions...
...Like many New Frontier veterans, this onetime legislative assistant to Robert Kennedy has taken a sabbatical from politics-he is now vice president for university policy and planning at the University of Massachusetts. "Some of us who have been enamored of Washington tended to forget how much you can accomplish at the local level," says the Minneapolis-born, Harvard-educated Edelman, who has launched university courses for prison inmates and other nontraditional students. Like his wife Marian, he is a supporter of children's rights. A onetime law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, Edelman worked for Common...
...reasons why Brezhnev wants détente have not changed. Apart from whatever the Soviets hope to accomplish in the nuclear field and lowering of their arms budgets, there is the fear of China and possible increased U.S. economic help for Peking. Finally, there is the Soviet need for Western technology and trade, which, if anything, has become more acute during the past year...
...hard to say whether Slingerland resigned out of pride or because she thought the move would accomplish something, but most council members and U Hall observers seemed to regard it as an unusual exercise in futility. After the storm blew over, the council gave Expos a little more money and sent the office a nice conciliatory note--and next year, all freshmen will take Expos, under a new standardized curriculum. The whole affair is harldy likely to make anyone think that stormy resignations get things done at Harvard...
...back to back massacres were dreadful enough in themselves: the world was stunned by photographs of lifeless children, bloody victims, agony-stricken mourners. Beyond that, the two days of insensible terror threatened to accomplish what fanatics on either side hoped they would: break up the disengagement talks that U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has been conducting between Jerusalem and Damascus. Actually, the terrorism appeared to have had an opposite effect. The horror of what had happened and what else might occur emphasized the necessity for peace. At week's end, after his fourth shuttle round trip of the week...