Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tight." Selective credit controls, which could perhaps include a boost in the down payment required for a house or auto loan or an increase in the minimum monthly payment on a Master Charge or Visa card, would be a quick and easy way for the Fed to try to accomplish what a rise in interest rates has so far failed to achieve. Predicts a top Administration policymaker: "Volcker is still philosophically opposed to controls, but I think he's beginning to budge...
...Chinese attach a great deal of importance to athletic exchanges, Jay Henderson, program associate of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, said yesterday. "They tend to see sports as a mechanism of conducting competition, but also a mechanism through which they can accomplish the political goal of establishing friendship," he said...
...with eclectic religious artifacts and the documentary details of the backwater South. The cast, including even bit players who appear as cops, used-car salesmen and townsfolk, features enough oddballs to staff a Tennessee Williams repertory company. Huston's only lapses are a few purple flashback sequences that accomplish little beyond allowing the di rector to appear onscreen as Hazel's grandfather. Still, those moviegoers who have a taste for Wise Blood are not going to cavil about flaws. It is enough to ride the wild imaginative waves of this singular artistic adventure. -Frank Rich
...accomplish anything unless you're having some fun. Of course, it is clear that I have fun on the job. I get to the office every morning between 6:30 and 7:30. The other executives know that, so they try to get in the office early too. I hope they are having...
...mobilize ERA support on a nation-wide level," Jung said, adding that the actions teams that have been set up across the country should accomplish this goal...