Word: accomplishing
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California polls show Unruh running from 8% to 13% behind Reagan. Should he lose, Unruh plans to accomplish a "change in the system" he knows so well by publishing an exposé. "I'll write," he threatens, "the damnedest book you ever read. I've been in on the deals, through the back doors. I know all about it." But, then, no one has ever doubted Jess Unruh's expertise...
...after the Columbia University student disorders of 1968 and is now gaining new support in the wake of Kent and Jackson State. It does not aim for a mass membership. But, says Washington's Catholic University Politics Professor James Dornan, "It's amazing what a few can accomplish-as the leftists have certainly proved...
Both high power and achievement ratings, say Winter and Donley, characterize the President who is able to exert the necessary political influence (power) to accomplish his goals (achievement). By contrast, Herbert Hoover-who, according to the investigators, "seemed to lack a 'political sense' "-scores higher in need for achievement (a rating of 4) than in need for power (a rating of 3). This is read to mean that Hoover sought in vain to bring about substantive accomplishments; he lacked the necessary political skill...
...trouble with Resolution 242, it appeared-after the Jarring mission had failed and Nasser broke the cease-fire -was that too much responsibility for peacemaking was put on parties who were at war. Rogers' lawyer instincts told him that the principals were too hostile to accomplish much without outside help. On that basis, Rogers decided to let Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs Joseph J. Sisco commence quiet discussions with the Russians. Chicago-born Sisco, 50, who holds a doctorate in international relations and is a 19-year State Department veteran, had begun handling the Middle...
...charges to scuttle the Pueblo in an emergency. The request went to a supply officer, who offered thermite instead. Bucher realized that carrying thermite, an incendiary substance, was both dangerous and contrary to Navy regulations. He could have made a fuss but decided against doing so. "All I could accomplish by pressing it further," he writes as apologia, "was to upset Admiral Johnson and his staff by giving them the impression they had a skipper on their hands who seemed obsessed with the capability to blow up his own ship...