Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter seemed to accomplish little. The industry's reply to Ike reiterated its position that a wage increase would be inflationary. Steelworkers President David J. McDonald renewed his bid for face-to-face meetings with the chief executives of the twelve companies. In deference to the President's request for uninterrupted bargaining, the union and management negotiating teams held their first weekend session, though neither side showed any sign of budging from its position...
...have an idea of the forest as well as the trees, to pursue a concentration and view it in the perspective of the fundamental areas of learning--is a valid one. And the seminars can help remedy the defects of the lecture system, which so often does not accomplish this goal...
...wages for an engineer are $700 a month-but on the pioneer spirit, a generous leave policy (up to one week in four in Algiers) and high living standards. Says a Hassi Messaoud executive: "Provided the mail is regular and the food is good, you can get Frenchmen to accomplish the impossible...
...accomplish these tasks, Explorer VI's 1/161n. aluminum skin shrouds the most intricate and talented collection of scientific instruments yet sent into space -all in a 29-in. by 26-in. ball that moves through its complete orbit once every twelve hours. One hoped-for result is the first relatively detailed map of the Van Allen belts, which present a formidable barrier to interplanetary flight. Previous earth satellites have not gone high enough to examine the enormous breadth of the Van Allen radiation. Pioneer IV obtained valuable information, but made only one trip through the belts before falling into...
...Vice President Nixon started off on his cold-war journey to the U.S.S.R., the Administration harbored doubts as to whether the trip could really be expected to accomplish very much-and Dick Nixon shared them. Nixon expected Soviet chieftains to be cool and suspicious. feared that Nikita Khrushchev might try to snub him and keep him away from the Russian people. But by the time Nixon headed back to Washington this week, there were no doubts at all that the trip was a diplomatic and sociological success far beyond what anybody could have hoped or imagined. During his improbable fortnight...