Word: accomplishing
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...estimated by the Congressional Budget Office. The faster growth raises federal revenues $17 billion more than could be expected from tax increases alone. The $68 billion from these two sources constitutes more than a third of the entire deficit reduction Mondale hopes to accomplish...
...there is to be a Republican dynasty ahead in the White House it is Reagan's belief it will rest on a healthy economy. The G.O.P. will gain strength "if we're successful in what we're trying to accomplish, and we've been successful so far-this recovery is evidence of that. I'm sorry, I said 'recovery.' I've had economists tell me that I should be calling it an 'expansion.' We're past the recovery stage. But if we are, then I think the pattern...
...ways that prevent its use in population-control programs that include abortion. The real loss may fall upon private organizations that currently receive about $100 million of the $240 million annual U.S. allotment. Groups that promote abortion would be cut off entirely. Ironically, the policy is unlikely to accomplish the one thing that its right-to-life supporters might expect. An estimated 50 million abortions are now performed each year around the globe; perhaps half of those occur in Third World countries that have antiabortion laws...
Motocross is a sport in transition. It's fighting the leather jacket image, struggling to get accepted as a legitimate sport and desperately seeking the exposure to accomplish both. At present the sport is a schizophrenic blend of exciting racing, carnival showmanship and pure hucksterism...
Fitzgerald also testified that on a 1982 tour of a Hughes Aircraft plant in Tucson, he discovered that the company was taking 17.2 hours to do what its own engineers said should take one hour to accomplish in the production of the $892,000 infrared imaging Maverick missile. A Hughes spokesman said Fitzgerald's assertion was untrue. Overall, Fitzgerald estimated, there is about 30% waste in most military contracts. His calculation of the cost to taxpayers: as much as $30 billion a year...