Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Garcia looked as if he wished he were back with the Dead, and if he wants to accomplish anything in improvisational music he'd be better off back with them...
...assumed. A sudden withdrawal or reduction of U.S. airpower would increase doubts about ARVN's abilities, even if the flow of American supplies and economic support continued. But for the moment, U.S. military men in Saigon and Washington remain reasonably sure that the newly Vietnamized war machine can accomplish its mission: to give the Saigon regime a "reasonable chance" of survival when American troops go home...
...this climate, real reform of the process by statute or national party declaration is extremely difficult. Perhaps nothing can be done about it in the season of the primaries, a kind of primitive elimination contest. But after that, the chosen presidential candidates could accomplish genuine reform by radically changing the very nature of American campaigning...
...press conference to tell the world that even though he had not been asked to fill the vacant post of U.S. Ambassador to Spain, he was not going to take the job because the ten-month period remaining until the presidential election was too short "to enable me to accomplish anything enduring." After November, though, if anybody cares, "I speak tourist Spanish with a Mexican accent, but I'm taking lessons...
...held at the Brookings Institution, half a mile away. There a group of twelve top economists -including Britain's Sir Alec Cairncross, Japan's Saburo Okita, and the U.S.'s Richard Cooper and C. Fred Bergsten-drafted a plan for a world monetary system that would accomplish precisely the goal that the Group of Ten rich nations agree is necessary but have done little to achieve. Central to the proposal is the creation of more IMF-managed reserves to replace gradually the dollars and gold bullion that are used by non-Communist nations to settle foreign debts...