Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, it has become difficult to accept films about fictional characters and their emotions. The integrity of conventional narratives, practically ruined by the likes of Mike Nichols, has been shaken theoretically by Godard and several others. Can dramatic feature films accomplish anything valid? We can't answer definitely until we've thought out the problem on the theoretical level where it's been posed...
Reid was then named to a national rules committee, but for a while the committee failed to accomplish anything. He became more forceful and finally the committee adopted several new rules, including the forward pass and the 60-minute time limit. Harvard was satisfied with the results and renewed its 1906 schedule...
...status as a quadrennial patronage prize and placing it in the hands of a semi-independent corporation. He has made Selective Service more equitable. He has reorganized the key decision-making and administrative apparatus of the White House. In foreign and military affairs, Nixon has formulated and begun to accomplish a gradual but potentially significant pullback in both commitments and forces -a more realistic alignment of policy with power. Other reforms, however, have faltered. Among them...
...ordnance the guerrillas could grab before Israeli salvage squads reached it. The war also displaced more Arabs in Gaza and the West Bank and bred frustration and resentment among Arabs toward their disgraced armies. At the same time, the war convinced the displaced Palestinians that other Arabs would never accomplish anything for them; the new nationalism provided more recruits than Arafat could easily handle. In March 1968, the guerrillas got another lift. When Israeli forces attacked the fedayeen stronghold at Karameh in Jordan, the guerrillas staged a creditable defense. They discovered that they could at least stand up against regular...
...accomplish this he roared into last summer's Nancy election with all the pizazz of a Kennedy seeking re-election in Massachusetts. He won with a surprisingly wide margin (55%), and tried the same techniques in Bordeaux -the frantic jetting from place to place, the restless copying machine ever churning out press releases, the coveys of attractive, midiskirted female assistants. He spoke endlessly in schools and public halls, garnering crowds of 2,000 and more-something unheard of in Bordeaux elections. As usual, he attracted hordes of newsmen complete with television lights and cameras. The sober daily Le Monde...