Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cement, machine tools or other products. The main thing is to make life better for people." He pledged both to "further strengthen centralization in strategic areas of the economy" and "at the same time . . . to broaden the autonomy of production associations, enterprises, collective and state farms." He would accomplish this, he said, in part by using "such tools as profit, pricing, credit and self-sufficiency of enterprises," all designed to achieve less, not more, central control. Contradictory though his program might be, Gorbachev implied that his stress on revving up the Soviet economy would require a relatively peaceful, stable relationship...
...said the piece is "blatantly false and misleading," but Rosen said he thought Harvard has done nothing about what he called the "outrageous misrepresentation" because it would not accomplish anything to protest to a weekly magazine. He said too much time would pass before a correction or clarification appeared...
...other bedroom only to find another guy recuperating from a hard night's drinking. Instead of Brideshead Revisited, the scene hauntingly reminded me of another movie, one starring John Belushi. I learned my first lesson at Harvard that day. Regardless of effort, drive, and burning desire to accomplish anything, there were always will be someone else ahead of you. I couldn't even finish second in a race of four...
...Reagan-Gorbachev summit during a 90- minute talk with the Soviet leader last week. Hammer said Gorbachev assured him that "there will be a meeting, just where and when has not been determined." But Gorbachev stressed that "to have a meeting we must meet about something -- something must be accomplished." Hammer said he had no doubt the two leaders would accomplish something when they finally did meet. "I think they'll like each other and be frank with each other," he said...
...Jones got a former All-Star like Wedman to play a character part. Wedman took eleven shots in the series opener, including four from 3-point range, and made them all. Then he returned to his seat next to Carr, who says, "It's amazing what everyone can accomplish when nobody cares who gets the credit." Carr was a star in the league once himself, but before that, literally years before putting on "these funny-looking green shoes," he was a Celtic...