Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...differences between supporters and opponents of the measure as to what level of government services were needed were slight." Julie B. Wilson, assistant professor of City and Regional Planning, said yesterday, adding. "The differences were in what they expected the proposition to accomplish...
...portray Western business concerns as honest but unfortunate victims of greedy villains of the Third World. Yet it is commonplace for American businessmen to spend billions of dollars annually converting good will and influence into profits. To accomplish this, great care is taken to retain the "properly positioned" law firms, the influential former military generals, prestigious interlocking corporate directors, graduates from the "right" business schools, effective political lobbyists, influential public relations companies, relatives of prominent people. And the U.S. Internal Revenue Service will accept the accompanying costs as legitimate business expense...
Exactly what does Byrne expect to accomplish? She is disarmingly frank about her immediate effect. Says Byrne: "Wherever a mayor goes there seem to be city services galore." In the apartment next door will be a contingent of police bodyguards. The city has assigned a special 28-member police platoon to the complex, and a nearby police court will be reopened soon. Last week seven area liquor stores were ordered closed, and the first of 800 eviction notices sent out to Cabrini-Green residents designated as "troublemakers." Airport-style metal detectors, intended to stop the importation of guns...
...services. We will need more people, and we're ordering more planes and ships and one thing or another so we'll need more people in the armed services. We hope to get them on an entirely voluntary basis, and that's what the increased benefits are designed to accomplish...
Lance Morrow touches only briefly on violent crime, the most important issue facing our nation. No renewal is possible until we can control crime. To accomplish that we need to rid ourselves of the notion that the judicial system is for the rehabilitation of criminals. It is not and shouldn't be. We have to learn to stop apologizing to culprits and punish them...