Word: accomplishing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dallas, of which he is chairman, became nervous that his association with troubled LTV could damage the bank. During his short tenure, Stewart managed to repay $35 million of LTV's $110 million short-term debt and renew all of its subsidiaries' lines of bank credit. To accomplish that, he had to assure LTV's bankers that Ling was no longer in control of the company. Last week the company made an $11 million interest payment on its 5% debentures. Part of the money was cash on hand, but part was generated by reclassifying a block...
Meany was just a bit overcritical. The commission does lack the power to accomplish much over the short term in reducing the pressures that lift prices. But it really aims at long-range solutions to a problem that is close to the root of inflation. The output per man-hour of the U.S. labor force has been sagging for two years; during the first quarter of this year, productivity actually fell at an annual rate of 0.6%. With wages and fringe benefits climbing by 7.7% an hour, labor costs per unit of output rose at an annual rate...
...difficult to say whether SDS will be able to accomplish its goals, or whether it will become too uncompromising, and isolate itself. On the other hand, although large demonstrations may be a way of bringing new people into the movement, there are growing numbers of people who are tired of marching...
...mechanics of sex the participant can prove, at least to himself, that he is not alone. Like the technician in the age of technology, he can insist that the machine needs him. He can defeat, if only for the moment, "the utterly unbearable situation of anonymity." And he can accomplish this without getting involved, without resorting to violence. But when such halfway measures fail, the individual who denies his autonomy confronts a more dreadful alternative: convinced at last of his own valuelessness, he must revolt against this self-debasement. "To inflict pain and torture at least proves that...
What else can be done by Burns' Federal Reserve? It can scarcely expand the money supply much faster without risking a still greater surge of inflation. Burns is all too well aware that the Administration has failed to accomplish its prime gameplan assignment of keeping the budget in balance. And by not holding down its own spending, the Government has contributed to the demand that has been driving prices skyhigh. By not collecting enough taxes to pay its bills, it has failed to set a psychologically important example of belt tightening for business, labor and consumers. By not avoiding deficits...