Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Government officials. Last week the agency approved PBA's initial plan for bringing its operating procedures into line and allowed the airline to resume some flights. PBA's plan, though, requires the airline to retest its pilots and rewrite its training manual and may take weeks to accomplish. Meanwhile, PBA's competitors are already scooping up its customers...
...diplomatic and subversive means. But with aid to the contra guerrilla forces cut off by Congress, and the newly elected Nicaraguan government assured of popular support for the near future, the likelihood of an overthrow seems low indeed. Rather than muscling or hustling the Sandinistas, the Reagan Administration might accomplish something tangible by dealing with the present situation, instead of reacting to imagined situations...
...Ortega seemed confident, he had good reason. By all accounts, the Sandinistas are expected to win the elections handily. No matter how great their victory at the polls, however, Ortega and his colleagues are not likely to accomplish their primary purpose in holding elections, which is to persuade critics at home and abroad that the Sandinista government legitimately represents the Nicaraguan people. What makes the vote especially suspect in U.S. eyes is the absence of a strong opponent to Ortega. Arturo Cruz Porras, a former member of the Sandinista junta, originally planned to head a ticket backed by the Coordinadora...
...1970s, liberals and conservatives alike exaggerated what arms control could accomplish, loading it down with burdens of hope it could not bear or blame it did not deserve, and expecting it to work wonders by itself...Arms control is not a substitute for defense. It is defense conducted by other means...
...question remains what an Egyptian-Jordanian bloc could accomplish. The united front undoubtedly strengthens Arafat's hand in his struggle against As sad for the soul of the P.L.O. For his part, Mubarak supports the 1982 Reagan peace plan, which calls for establishing an autonomous Palestinian confederation by linking the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza to Jordan. He hopes that by joining forces with Amman he can build momentum for talks with Israel. According to diplomats in Amman, however, Hussein may have different motives for embracing Egypt. He may want to deflect U.S. disapproval if, as some diplomats...