Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...embarked in rubber dinghies. Some 60 naval commandos and paratroopers, armed with automatic rifles, grenades and almost 800 Ibs. of explosives, quietly rowed toward five different points along the moonlit shore. Helicopters hovered offshore with reinforcements; they were not needed. The raiders took less than 2½ hours to accomplish their missions: the assassination of three Palestinian leaders and the destruction of several fedayeen facilities. The Israelis killed at least 14 other people and wounded many more. Their own losses: two dead and two wounded. It was, all in all, one of the most spectacular raids that the Israelis...
Foremost is a plan to shift the country from an agricultural to an industrial base, which recalls the program that nearly wrecked the economy when Perón was in power. To help accomplish this shift there will be greater state participation in Argentina's economic and industrial life. While nationalization of major corporations is ruled out for the present, all of private industry will be more tightly regulated than...
More at issue than the actual political spying activities or the secret diversion of funds to accomplish them is the lack of veracity of high officials in both the Administration and the Republican Party. The attempt to cover up such activity and impede impartial investigations seems far more damaging than the clandestine operations. It suggests a disdain for the law, for the truth and, ultimately, for the public, that is dismaying to find at lofty levels of the Government...
...tissue in their brains and the remainder spread throughout their bodies, can grow new tails, legs and even heart tissue. Becker theorized that he could increase the regenerative powers of higher animals by somehow compensating for the relatively small proportion of nerve tissue in their extremities. He tried to accomplish this by bolstering the electrical activity in the nerve network. After amputating limbs from 39 rats, he planted electrodes in the amputation sites and applied current to stimulate cell changes. All but two of the animals responded with some limb growth; many regenerated amputated forelegs as far as the first...
...found that federal policy has done nothing to redirect graduate education to where the jobs are. For example, there is an oversupply of Ph.D.s in education, anthropology and history but a shortage in the health professions. The group urged that the Government play on students' self-interest to accomplish reform by distributing fellowships "directly to students on the basis of intellectual and creative promise," rather than channeling them through professions or schools. That would enable the students to "vote with their feet" for programs of proven excellence and presumably for fields where the most jobs are available...