Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...questions are, they will no doubt raise them themselves at the start in order to answer them, in which case as far as I can see there will be no need for a long debate; I have yet to find anyone who objects to what they are trying to accomplish...
...Egyptians, meanwhile, believe that unless the U.S. forces certain terms upon the Israelis, nobody will. They argue that Washington could accomplish this simply by cutting off its arms aid to the Israelis. "The power to give," says one Egyptian official, "is the power to withhold." The U.S. has sought, albeit unsuccessfully, to persuade Cairo that its influence over Israel falls far short of outright control. Moreover, Washington fears that to cut off Israel's last external source of weaponry would only reduce Egypt's incentive to negotiate seriously with Israel, directly or otherwise. There is also the internal U.S. situation...
...made him an enthusiast for personality politics. But life as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford's 700-year-old University College gave him his first serious look at democratic socialism, a system he thinks is inevitable for the U.S. It also gave him "more humility about what individuals can accomplish in a short period of time." On his return, Reich looked up McCarthy campaigners who had gone on to more antiwar marches and discovered to his horror that they had become "burntout cases running on pure energy and not really thinking about what they were doing anymore...
...going to have to give up vast portions of what we consider to be our inherent rights in free, private enterprise in order to arrive at an implemented national oil policy. There is a quid pro quo for the backing of the Government and that is to accomplish certain things for the nation and not necessarily for the company itself...
...today. They beat our industry not nearly so much in price as in style. That kind of thing is important to the U.S. consumer. You have to put the consumer's interest first. BRADSHAW: The question ought to be, what are the goals that we are trying to accomplish? Are we trying to protect every industry in the U.S. in its present form? Are we trying to maintain full employment by erecting trade barriers? Are we trying to protect high labor wages? Are we trying to protect our current technology? Are we trying to freeze our economy? I could...