Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point where the former fails and the parties to a dispute resort to arms. Of course, we have developed a variety of strategic options and targeting policies for the contingency of nuclear war. I doubt, however, whether we have a clear notion of what these weapons are supposed to accomplish should we be required to use them. Deeply imbedded in all our plans is the notion of punishing the aggressor rather than defeating...
...outcry for federal intervention has been accompanied by cynicism about what the public sector could accomplish," Sammons said, citing government failures in urban renewal and Indian affairs. "Why should the government be any more successful with health care...
...prison by writing a letter to U.S. District Judge Robert Kelleher. Pleading for a reduction in sentence, Boyce claimed that he was a changed man and that prison violence appalled him. "I am now finished with angry gestures," Boyce wrote. "They are self-destructive, they tear hearts, they accomplish nothing. The difference between Christopher Boyce who at 21 took matters into his own hands and the Christopher Boyce who composes this letter is that I have discovered a powerful, constructive vehicle to convey my criticisms." His stated ambition: to emigrate to Ireland and support himself as a writer. According...
There are only two choices before us in dealing with our energy problems. One is to rely solely upon high energy prices to bring demand and supply into balance. This policy would take quite a while to accomplish the nation's energy goals because, even with oil price decontrol, energy prices paid by the consumer will still be too low to reflect the real costs to the Moreover, taking this route would result in slower economic growth interspersed with recessions...