Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before the trip, Kissinger was somewhat worried about how much he might be able to accomplish this time round. The Israelis are not exactly fond of the Egyptians, but they have an almost visceral hatred for the Syrians, who until last week had shown scant interest in any negotiated disengagement. But after a late-night meeting with President Hafez Assad in Damascus, Kissinger was authorized to take to Jerusalem a list of the prisoners of war held by Syria. This was a major concession for Assad: Israel had insisted upon having the names of the P.O.W.s before it would even...
...chimpanzee is allowed to punch the keys of a typewriter at random for a long enough time, it will eventually peck out Hamlet. Lana, a playful three-year-old female chimpanzee at Emory University's Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, will never accomplish that feat, but she is already one up on the hypothetical chimp. Under the tutelage of the center's scientists, Lana is rapidly learning how to read and write in a brand-new language called Yerkish...
Schools are responsible for creating the highly stratified, hierarchical nature of the modern economy. They accomplish this by establishing a corresponding system of social relations. "Education selects and generates personality traits, primarily the ability to give and take orders," Gintis said...
...that is so, the attempt last week boomeranged: Jobert forged a greater degree of unity between the U.S. and non-French Europe than Kissinger had been able to accomplish. West German Finance Minister Helmut Schmidt declared that his country did not want to be forced to choose between Common Market unity and backing the U.S.-but in the end, Germany chose the U.S. Other delegates were less emphatic, but in signing the communique without reservations they in effect said the same thing. Germany has proposed that Common Market Foreign Ministers meet next month to try to narrow the various splits...
Despite the complaints, Smith has managed to accomplish some important internal housecleaning. Among his rulings: any lawyer with more than six years' service on an A.B.A. committee must step down; committee chairmen may serve no more than three years; no one may serve on more than one committee. Said a St. Louis lawyer who was bumped from a committee as a result: "It was traumatic at the time, but it made sense." The organization's House of Delegates has already approved his position on marijuana. Last week it took up a broad array of issues in which Smith...