Word: accomplishing
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...United Nations Conference on the Human Environment to be held in Stockholm next year. Among proposed controls: a registry of elements discharged into oceans and global monitoring of ocean pollution. As the U.S. sees it, rather than trying to police polluters, which would take a special U.N. navy to accomplish, it would be better to create uniform standards among maritime nations; the nations would then be expected to enforce the standards themselves. An Administration-approved bill now pending before the House would control offshore dumping by stringently regulating what wastes leave U.S. ports. One catch: most of the proposals concern...
...change? With as many as 300,000 applications, processing would be impossible to accomplish in any reasonable time. At the core of the problem was the fact that the guidelines for effluent controls bombed out: it was impossible to come up with a standard which would fit every waterway involved...
...accomplish its ambitious aims, the junta adopted a nationalist posture -"neither Communist nor capitalist, but peculiarly Peruvian," as Velasco put it. Unlike military regimes of the past, which usually served the oligarchy, the junta was sympathetic toward the sufferings of the lower classes simply because some of its members came from humble backgrounds. Only a few days after seizing power, it nationalized the U.S.-owned International Petroleum Co. and refused to pay compensation on the grounds that the company had illegally taken oil out of the country worth at least six times as much as the seized holdings. Loath...
...silence had never been broken. In an America now angrily aware of the Cosa Nostra, Colombo wanted to return to the omerta of turn-of-the-century Little Italys, where Mafia was a whispered word and bosses were not bad gered by grand juries, tax investigators and wiretaps. To accomplish his goal, Colombo tapped deepseated, legitimate grievances among Italian Americans and ? shocking editorial writers and Mob capos alike?jumped into press conferences and picket lines. He sought to make Cosa Nostra private once more by turning any derision of Italian Americans?Mafiosi or not?into a cause for public...
Detroit just sighed. "The test procedures have been made easier," said a Chrysler official, "but we still don't know whether we can accomplish the goals." Herbert L. Misch, Ford's vice president for engineering and manufacturing, was more explicit. Between the 1962 and the 1970 models, he said, Detroit cut carbon-monoxide emissions by 70% and hydrocarbons by 80%. "Thus," he complained, "the task presented to us of an additional 90% reduction is formidable. We are most pessimistic about our ability to comply with the 1976 requirements on nitrogen oxides...