Word: accomplishing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Kemeny said his decision to resign was based on "a realistic evaluation" of what further he could expect to accomplish as president. He said the "wear and tear of the job" had taken its toll on his energy...
Measuring productivity, usually defined as output per man hour, helps us understand the process of technological change which sets limits on what we can accomplish. Professor Griliches acknowledges both the difficulties in measuring productivity and the limits of our understanding but proceeds to summarize economists' views as to what accounts for the striking decline in American productivity in recent years...
Private companies can best?and at least cost?accomplish the goals of public regulation if the state does not tell them precisely how to control bad side effects but sets standards and allows the companies freedom to devise means of compliance on their own. The Environmental Protection Agency's "bubble plan" for air pollution control is an example of this flexible approach. Rather than strictly controlling the pollutants from each and every smokestack in a factory, the agency sets overall standards for the effluents from the entire plant or groups of plants. The air-quality goal is the same...
Harrington's analysis contains an important and troubling paradox. He consistently argues that America's problems are structural, but he rejects as politically impossible radical structural changes such as a complete overthrow of capitalism. He doesn't explain how he can accomplish the reforms he proposes--direct challenges to capitalist assumptions--without changing the capitalist system. As the example of the Allende government in Chile indicates, democratically-elected socialist governments may have to combat a lack of business confidence or outright business sabotage. As head of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC), Harrington is committed to peaceful change and socialist...
...likely to be satisfied, however, by the forthcoming Washington talks. In fact, the Administration has downplayed the meetings to such an extent that, as one diplomatic analyst puts it, the participants "have one great advantage: nobody in the U.S., Europe or the Middle East expects them to accomplish anything." Many in the Administration may see Begin's settlements policy as an outrageous obstruction to peace. But the realities of election-year politics make it just about impossible for a U.S. Administration, concerned about the Jewish vote, to be overly critical of Israel...