Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arab forces did not, to be sure, accomplish these successes entirely on their own. Some Western military observers believe that Soviet advisers played a key role in the creditable performance of both the Syrian and Egyptian armies in the current war. Despite Sadat's well-publicized expulsion of some 17,000 Soviet technicians last year, Egypt now has about 1,000 Russian military advisers. While Egyptian troops fired the Russian-built SAMs at Israeli planes, the more complex job of coordinating and planning the missile attacks was handled by Soviet experts. Advisers from the U.S.S.R. also helped the Syrian...
ROUND 3. Also in February, Deputy Treasury Secretary William Simon was made head of the Government's Oil Policy Committee. When spot shortages of gasoline began to appear in the late spring, he decided that some allocation of petroleum products was necessary and prepared a voluntary system to accomplish it. The morning he was scheduled to present it to Congress, DiBona appealed to Simon's boss, Treasury Secretary George Shultz, to block the testimony. Shultz refused to interfere and the program was adopted...
...shouldn't need to have merger in order to accomplish the things that need to be done," Hugh Calkins'45, a Fellow of Harvard College and co-chairman of the scholarship drive, said last week...
...allocation program is needed, but it would not eliminate the basic cause of oil and gasoline shortages: a lack of refining capacity. An increase in refinery construction began last year, but it will not have very much impact until 1975. Until then, oilmen can accomplish little by juggling refinery runs...
...does not require the state to balance spending in rich and poor school districts. "Everyone talks about what a shame it is that the Supreme Court failed to require the equalizing of public school expenditures," he says. "But nobody talks about whether the court is the proper body" to accomplish that...