Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...price controls, many of them would have done without altogether--queueing up for meat and other goods or even not finding them at all. Superkid's friends tried to explain to him that it wasn't the small shopkeepers who were hoarding goods, and that he couldn't accomplish anything without everyone else's help, so he just flew off to beat up some of the big capitalists instead. It takes Superkid a long time to learn that individual action, even by someone as brave as he is, isn't enough to change things, but he finally goes back...
This is the ambitious task that William Stott sets out to accomplish in Documentary Expression and Thirties America. As a literary and cultural chronicle Stott's book is magnificent. But as an analysis that attempts to shed light on the relationship between thirties culture and the period's social and political history, it has serious flaws...
...paper contended that Nixon raised the milk supports, reversing a decision by then Secretary of Agriculture Clifford Hardin, because 1) Congress was exerting "intensive pressure" to accomplish the same end; 2) the economics of the industry justified the increase and 3) the approaching election called for "traditional political considerations relating to needs of the farm states...
Demanding Boss. The hope among White House staffers is that Vice President Gerald Ford will perform Laird's role as a top-level troubleshooter while also influencing domestic policy. But to accomplish this, Ford will have to become a commanding figure in his own right, something no Vice President in history has been able to do. Says one key White House assistant: "Let's wait six weeks and see how it works...
...connected with such prestigious institutions as the University of California, Germany's Max Planck Institutes and the National Institutes of Health. These researchers constitute the faculty of an "invisible university." Meeting regularly to discuss specific topics and staying in constant communication by letter and telephone, | they hope to accomplish together what none could succeed in I doing alone. Five of the N.R.P.'s ' 36 associates have won Nobel Prizes for their work in chemistry, medicine or physiology...