Word: feat
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...company has done more to change the way America works than International Business Machines Corp. Founded in 1911, IBM soon came to dominate the market for time clocks and punch-card tabulators. In the 1930s it pioneered the sale of electric typewriters. But its most revolutionary feat was to usher in the computer age. With vision and drive, IBM increased the electronic brain power of American business and then spread that boon around the world. In the 1960s and '70s, roughly two-thirds of all computers sold bore the IBM trademark. The company was so overpowering that the eight...
...high grades for intelligence and integrity. We think he's so good, we're working to save his job." In fact, of all the officers whose departments have been targeted for severe cuts or extinction, Bell has emerged with the most popularity. He has accomplished this feat despite the fact, as one teachers' spokesman puts it, that he is working for "the most anti-education Administration in this century." Bell, who served as U.S. Commissioner of Education under President Ford, hopes to turn his department into an independent, government-supported foundation, such as the National Science Foundation...
...Egyptian army exercises. The most spectacular event will occur on Nov. 24, when six B-52 bombers, flying from North Dakota bases and refueled three times in midair, will skim across the Egyptian desert at an altitude of a few hundred feet and drop live bombs (see map), a feat that will not necessarily inspire worldwide...
...latest troubles, which began two weeks ago when clogged oil filters caused an abrupt postponement of the flight. After all, just getting a used spacecraft into orbit was a notable first. The Soviets, who have been hurtling cosmonauts into space with awesome regularity, have yet to attempt such a feat. U.S. space officials emphasized that all of Columbia's first four missions are in fact test flights. Their purpose is to turn up just such "glitches" as Columbia's problems with its electrical system, before the shuttle spacecraft actually goes into regular service...
first as a scholar of medieval art, and second as director of the Met from 1967 to 1978. The feat that did most to lift him from the curatorial ruck and make him papabile was a work of art he acquired for the Cloisters in 1963. The Bury St. Edmunds Cross, a 12th century English ivory carving, was and still is one of the finest medieval objects in America. It is unsettling as well, since much of its complicated biblical and patristic symbolism insists that the Jews were the killers of Christ and thus an accursed people, so detestable that...