Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...produce some agreed-upon "guidance" that all spokesmen could adhere to. A memo of understanding, signed by Sprinkel and Stockman's top economic aide, Lawrence Kudlow, among others, said that all concerned agreed on a steady slow growth of the money supply, which the Fed was moving to accomplish. The message ended: "Nothing which has been said in recent days indicates a retreat from that commitment." A White House spokesman as much as admitted that concern about economic disunity had been only temporarily stilled. Said he: "I don't think you'll hear much about that...
...little" about their political stands, the Harvard-Radcliffe Conservative Club (HRCC) this year will act as a "forum for conservative opinion," presenting speakers, debates and a newspaper to the Harvard community, Chris S. Foreman '83, president of the club, said yesterday. Foreman said the group has the resources to accomplish these goals with "more members than ever" and the strong possibility of receiving a $10,000 grant to fund the newspaper...
...companies deplored the recent murder. Said Coke's Win Mumby: "Both Pepsi and Coke have reasonable managements who try to prevent this kind of thing." Added Pepsi's Leonard DuBoff: "A poster certainly isn't worth a man's life." Thongyu's death did accomplish one thing. For a few moments, it got Coke and Pepsi to think seriously about the limits of their rivalry...
Meanwhile, on another front entirely, national leaders have sprung up who seem incapable of second thoughts. Rather than divert their gaze from the silent toy within their reach, they muse and wonder what the thing might actually accomplish. These bombs have lain shelved for quite a while now, and a test is only a test, after all. Nor is such madness confined to the certifiable. Even the meekest citizen knows moments wherein he dreams of Armageddon. Whence otherwise could come such colliding terms as "population explosion" and "baby boom" but the amazing bicameral mind? It is a two-pole world...
...rioting spreads, they turn to July, the black man who has been their servant for 15 years. He piles them into a van and guides them to his ancestral village, nearly 400 miles away. This "crash from the suburb to the wilderness" takes three torturous days and nights to accomplish...