Word: accomplies
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...fact, especially since coeducation has been treated as a fait accompli (the Review even consistently takes a strong stand in favor of women's sports), once can say that the changing of the college symbol led to the founding of the Review for it provided a symbolic issue around which traditionalists could rally and to some, pointed to the need for an alternative voice on campus. The Review has gained popularity among alumni (and financial advantage from them as well) in large part because of its support of the Indian symbol; many seem to believe that if the Indian symbol...
...colonization of the lucrative underwear market by the designers might have come to naught, if not for the entry of industry leviathan Calvin Klein, whose energetic marketing campaign has made designer underwear for men a fait accompli. Any recent visitor to New York has seen the virtually ubiquitous advertisements plastered by Klein's operatives on the sides of bus shelters. They depict a body reminiscent of something out of Mussolini's art collection in blissful, practically naked repose. All indications point to the probability that such advertisements will soon proliferate throughout the land...
Both temporary faits accompli also seem borne of an objectionably cloistered decision-making process that we hope the University avoids in the future. The imminent choice of a new Corporation member offers the opportunity both to include more people in high-level Harvard decisions, and also to diversity the Corporation by adding a woman or a member of a minority group...
...Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. His lieutenants hardly sound hopeful that much will be accomplished. There are worries in Washington that the Israelis may snuff out the diminishing hopes for progress in any negotiations by continuing the process of "creeping annexation" until it becomes a fait accompli. The situation, said one U.S. official last week, "requires presidential leadership to ward off the disasters down the road. I really don't know if Ronald Reagan sees that...
...College's storage fait accompli is especially upsetting in that the need to cut back on storage is by no means obvious. Even Martha Coburn, associate dean of the College, has said the only tangible costs involved in storage are those of paying a custodian to supervise storage in the spring and removal in the fall. That price certainly seems worth paying...