Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because energy is the lifeblood of a modern industrial society, the Soviets will undoubtedly make an all-out effort to tap their hard-to-get reserves. It remains to be seen, though, whether the country can accomplish the job in time to avert serious shortages. Concludes Jack Ray, a Tenneco petroleum specialist who is often in the Soviet Union: "With brute strength and will power they'll muddle through, just as they always...
...have held lawyers in low esteem, which may be apt for a country in which laws were supposed to be necessary only during the transition to a self-governing society that would not require courts, prosecutors and police. But increasingly the Soviet authorities find themselves resorting to law to accomplish goals and deal with change...
...Dean Rosovsky, "the issue" of the Core Curriculum is "are these good courses--do they accomplish the educational purposes for which they were designed? That's a very subtle question." It is also one that students, faculty and administrators could begin to answer this year as the Core moved from the drawing boards into the classrooms...
...pride then: the Radcliffe liberal arts education had not provided its students with the skills they needed for survival. What Radcliffe had given its daughters, though, was a broad and flexible education. Dr. Elsie Field Doob '30 believes her experience at Radcliffe instilled in her an important need to accomplish "because I was in association with people who were ambitious or who had succeeded." Unlike many of her classmates, Doob continued on to graduate school. The daughter of a biologist and cousin of zoologist Howard Stabler, Doob was one of five women to enter the Columbia University College of Physicians...
...just don't see what they can accomplish," Hoffmann said, adding that the presence of prominent Americans at the conference will be used by the Iranians "for one more argument in support of American guilt...