Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Decter! Let the Ms. girls rant and rave; let them prefer usually dull 9-to-5 routines in business to taking care of their own kids. Poor things! They seem to have no sense of humor or of fun, but whom are they fooling but themselves? Although fanatics sometimes accomplish improvements that are needed, offensive tactics make the job much harder. MAY GOULD Carmel...
...first four years, Nixon concentrated largely on foreign policy, an area where he enjoys a hand relatively free from congressional control. Much of what he set out to accomplish in that area-with the notable exception of ending the war in Viet Nam-has been accomplished. Now he must turn to domestic priorities. It will be an uphill fight. Getting significant legislation through the two chambers of the Congress can be an arduous and often impossible task, even when the President's party controls both. That was a lesson John Kennedy learned. In the years to come, Nixon...
...says it's a bogus issue because he has had a 99 per cent attendance record at the House, and has found sufficient time to do the committee work required of all legislators. "It's like academics," Mahoney said recently. "Some people can work 20 hours a day and accomplish nothing. Other people can accomplish much more in a relatively short period of time...
...ceasefire, the formation of a new South Vietnamese government and elections for a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution for South Viet Nam. To separate military from political matters it proposes three separate committees or bodies to implement a settlement, a process that might take many months to accomplish. What the White House wants, say the Saigon sources, is to be able to announce an agreement "in principle" on the package before Election Day, though the first step of a cease-fire might not even be possible that soon. What the plan outlines on the military and political fronts...
FOUCAULT'S MOST THEORETICAL book to date. The Archaeology of Knowledge could not accomplish its task without the case studies of his earlier works. Madness and Civilization, which appeared in this country in 1965, studies changing concepts of insanity in Europe between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries and how they relate to changing concepts of knowledge and of the mind. The Order of Things (1971), subtitled "An Archaeology of the Human Sciences," traces a particular pattern of discourse uniting changes in the areas of inquiry which in the early nineteenth century became the new sciences philology, biology, and political economy...