Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about the same time, Carter ordered the New York Federal Reserve Bank to begin converting the $1.2 billion in U.S. Treasury securities owned by Iran into cash. Although this process would normally require several days to accomplish, the U.S. could in effect simply loan itself the equivalent cash and then sell the securities later. All of the initial cash transfers were meant to show that the U.S. was acting in good faith-especially in view of the arbitrary deadline set by Iran's Nabavi, who mysteriously threatened to break off the whole deal if the Americans failed to take...
Carter, who campaigned in 1976 on a pledge to balance the budget by 1981, was obviously trying to leave office with as small a deficit as possible, and he sometimes used mirrors to accomplish that. His revenue estimates, for example, include $13.1 billion from a proposed extra 10?-per-gal. tax on gasoline. Congress has often made it clear that it will not increase the tax on gas. Carter also proclaims that the annual pay raise for federal employees in October will be held to 5.5%. Such restraint seems unlikely; last year Carter initially suggested a 7.8% civil service...
...redoubled police efforts to ferret out illegal immigrants, and offered $2,250 bonuses to workers who voluntarily return to their own countries. The trouble is that many African countries have refused to take them back. Consequently, what Giscard has failed to solve by expulsion, he has tried to accomplish by diffusion: thousands of immigrants have been moved out of cities by the government and relocated in suburban areas where their numbers are less conspicuous...
...what student participation in a disciplinary body is supposed to accomplish, what end it serves," he adds. The CRR "began with the assumption that protest was wrong and people should be punished," and that, Berg concludes, is something no well-meaning student representative could eradicate...
...decision came after members decided that they could not accomplish their aim of either reforming or abolishing the committee under the present election system...