Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could have a hearing room big enough to hear those who would want to discuss increases in taxes. But the main thing in my mind is that I just don't feel that taxes can be raised and lowered, season by season, or that they should be, to accomplish those short-run objectives. I have spoken many times on this idea of using the tax law to bring about short-run changes in the economy, lowering and raising the hemline of taxation, as dresses are lowered and raised...
...them: Viet Nam, ghettos, taxes, inflation, France, Russia, Cuba, gun control, hunger, nuclear nonproliferation and strikes. Also, he faces added worries because: 1) the majority of the voters rejected him, 2) he must live up to his promises of a modern Shangrila, and 3) he must accomplish all this with a fresh Cabinet and a Vice President who is the biggest joke in the history of American politics. Due to these factors, Richard Nixon should become the most prayed-for President in our nation's history...
...which finances his work. DeVries adds the usual warning that indiscriminate, unsupervised exercise may be dangerous to potential heart-attack victims. By June he hopes to have laid a foundation for individual exercise prescriptions. "If we can develop the beginning of a pharmacopoeia of exercise," he said, "we will accomplish what we set out to do." And hearten panting joggers as well...
...himself and the country. Proof of the current was the Gaullist sweep of the special election in June, which Pompidou masterminded. The former Premier feels that he received a charge as well as a current. When he placed Pompidou "in reserve," De Gaulle asked him to "be prepared to accomplish any mission and to assume any mandate that could one day be confided to you by the nation." Pompidou and almost everyone else assumed that this was De Gaulle's oracular way of naming his close comrade dauphin, readying him for the day when the emperor retired. Last week...
...inch of progress is an accurate measure of what the Vatican has tried to accomplish in other areas of Eastern Europe. It is the sort of modus vivendi that has been the aim of Monsignor Agostino Casaroli, a veteran church dip omat, who over the past few years has been in charge of negotiations with the Communists. Not all of Casaroli's Vatican colleagues feel that his pursuit of compromise has won more than it has given away, though there is little question that liberalization in Czechoslovakia and recognition in Hungary have improved Catholic status...