Word: goals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...during the recess three management consulting firms hired by the Senate Budget Committee concluded that the President's goal of 2 million bbl. of synthetic fuels a day in ten years was unrealistic and potentially wasteful. The consultants advised that it would make more sense to try several different approaches on a modest scale and then decide which ones were feasible...
That is the goal of Shelter Founders Pat Hennin, 34, and his wife Patsy, 35. Five years ago, after they built a house (for a friend), they decided to teach others. Pat abandoned his law career, and the Hennins started their school in a $50-a-month classroom. Though the institute now occupies three buildings, the Hennins remain dedicated to simplicity. Says Pat: "The construction business has made building into a mystery by breaking it up into specialties. Carpenters do not know plumbing. Plumbers cannot lay a foundation. We have just drawn it all together to let people...
...chief architect of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. Pérez Alfonzo helped form the Accion Democratica party in 1941, became Minister of Mines on its rise to power four years later. He sought to organize a union of oil-producing nations, a goal realized in 1960; and to nationalize Venezuelan oil, which was done in 1976. In recent years he admitted that as "the father of OPEC, I sometimes feel like renouncing my offspring...
...readers have a right to wonder whether his unparalleled ear for language and his eye for social nuance are to be used solely for elaborations of the same theme. For the past several books, Kosinski has been as aimless as his characters who believe that the going is the goal. That is not true for polo. It is even less so for novelists, even gifted ones. -Stefan Kanfer
...that's not your goal, you shouldn't even step on the field," he says. Crazy you say? Not really--just enthusiastic...