Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accomplish the journey, Teng and his backers have embarked on what sometimes looks suspiciously like a capitalist road. The new doctrinal slogan might be formulated thus: "Let one hundred business deals blossom, let one hundred foreign investors contend." Although very few Chinese have acquired much individual freedom as part of the new enterprise, they are discarding, without ceremony, much of their old ideological baggage. Gone is the once sacred Maoist principle of national self-reliance and independence from outside resources. Chinese managers have heretically embraced such impure capitalist devices as meritocratic promotions and other special treatment for their best...
...fourth modernization, that of the military, will be almost as difficult to accomplish. Although it has the world's largest standing army (about 3% million), China's military machine is primitive, at least 20 years behind those of the superpowers. China's most potent bomber is the antiquated TU-16 of 1954. The People's Liberation Army
...analysis firm. Adds David Grove, a consultant to IBM who sometimes sides with the liberals: "The problem that the country has to face is whether it really wants to get the basic rate of inflation down very substantially, to cut it, say, in half. There is no way to accomplish that without going through a recession and having a couple years afterward of very slow growth...
...immediately add up to 4? per gal. at the pump, on top of perhaps a 1½? increase as a result of the expected OPEC price rise. In addition, decontrol of domestic crude oil to bring prices up to world levels, which Carter pledged in Bonn last summer to accomplish by the end of 1980, would add an extra 5? or 6? per gal. to gasoline costs, lifting fuel prices far beyond the President's own anti-inflation limits. These specify that companies keep their price increases ½% or more below their average increases of the past two years...
...value, then it must extend beyond elitist technical jargon. It must apply itself to the real world by reaching out and teaching the public. Mead succeeded better than anyone else at doing just that, and simplification and generalization were only minor sacrifices she made to accomplish the greater good...