Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only two alternatives. Either a) You are unaware of the Fogg's role and importance as are the other five members of the Corporation, or b) Being aware, you are unwilling to go to bat and if necessary lay your job as president on the line to accomplish what needed to be acomplished. You may therefore take your choice as to whether "ignorance" or "ignominy" more aptly describes the basis of your behavior...
...even in aiding the domestic industries they are supposed to help. In steel, quotas on shipments from the European Community, Japan and eleven other nations were supposed to hold imports to 20.5% of U.S. consumption, but the actual share is running at 25.7%. What quotas and other restrictions do accomplish is to raise prices of imports and of the American goods that compete against them. The New York Federal Reserve Bank figures that quotas and tariffs on clothing and textiles cost consumers between $8.5 billion and $12 billion...
...accomplish the goal of efficent party government, Kirk said his administration in its first year has limited the impact specific interest groups have in the Party. Kirk also said he will eliminate forums where Democrats air dissent among themselves...
...contrary. These students, on a mission from God, feel compelled to lambast any move to fight apartheid by the "establishment." Short of personally hiring a plane, flying to Pretoria, and splitting P. W. Botha's head with an Uzi submachine gun, there is virtually nothing President Bok can accomplish with full credit. Unless those who oppose divestment are ready to throw themselves entirely at the mercy of these inspired activists, then there is no hope for a better day in South Africa, activists...
...Reagan, by contrast, this meeting could be his first, last and only chance to sit down as President with the Soviet leader. The chances of failure, or at least widespread public disappointment, are considerable. Therefore the White House and the Kremlin have been maneuvering in recent weeks to accomplish three goals: 1) lower expectations for success, 2) assure that if the meeting is indeed a bust, the other side will get the blame, and 3) keep open the possibility, however slim, that something of significance can be accomplished...