Word: accomplish
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...Government. The specific terms of the Endowment may be modified subsequently upon mutual agreement of the Dean, or his successor, and the donors. If, at some future time, the Endowment cannot be usefully applied to agreed upon purposes, they will be applied to such uses as will most nearly accomplish the donor's initial intent...
...Life of Brian: With his seven receptions Saturday in Providence, senior split end Brian Barringer moved to seventh place on the all-time single-season receiving list with 31 catches. He is almost sure to reach 40 receptions this season, and will become only the fourth Harvard player to accomplish this...
...accomplish their lofty task, the Italians carried computerized radio receivers to stations on each mountain. The instruments used timed signals from U.S. Navstar satellites to calculate the exact longitude, latitude and altitude of each receiver. Armed with these coordinates, the researchers then measured the angles formed by the peaks and the receiver stations with a surveyor's theodolite, as well as the distance between the stations. Since the length of one side of each triangle and two angles were known, the peaks' heights could be accurately determined by simple geometry...
...Both he and [the other '84 Olympians] have played and they understand what's going on," Olympic Coach Dave Peterson said. "They understand what we're trying to, accomplish...
Tonegawa proved that cells accomplish the Herculean task of making antibodies to order by reshuffling parts of the genes that govern the production of antibodies, the cellular building blocks of the immune system. He likens the process to rearranging the boxcars on a freight train. "The dogma was that the order of the genes in any one person is immutable," he says. "The freight train never shifts its cars around." In spite of prevailing theory, Tonegawa found that the "cars" did indeed rearrange themselves in a multitude of different configurations to make the antibodies that fight off diseases. His work...