Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students rarely are quiet long enough during any given hour of class discussion to hear any one else speak. Through this research, scientists uncovered the existence of a secret ritualistic club, "The Bullshitters of Harvard." After many years of freelancing, the individuals apparently decided to organize in order to accomplish their mutual objective of worldwide annoyance. I attended a recent meeting during which an alumnus returned to give a speech on techniques of Harvard section behavior...
...only a slight effect. A more important step would be to protect the tropical rain forests, a move that would certainly be resisted by developers. Obviously, the most far-reaching step would be to cut back on the use of fossil fuels, a measure that would be hard to accomplish in industrialized countries without a wholesale turn to energy conservation or alternative forms of power. In developing countries, such reductions might be technologically feasible but would be all but impossible to carry out politically and economically...
...only thing carding will accomplish is the suffocation of Harvard's non-too-healthy social life. Most undergraduates agree that social activities here suffer in comparison to other schools--even MIT. True, the recent actions of the House Masters reflect their concern for financial liabilities that might arise from an injury at a party. But they just aren't concerned enough with other undergraduate concerns--like social life...
...Crimson can accomplish that, it can avoid having to travel the comeback trail...
Those rulings have reshaped American life -- which is precisely Bork's complaint. He accuses the recent court of liberal "judicial activism," using its power to accomplish social goals that have eluded -- or been opposed by -- legislatures. His own philosophy, he claims, is based on fealty to "neutral principles," the notion that judges should not formulate their legal principles based on the outcome they will produce in the particular case being heard. And yet, as his opponents point out, Bork's record makes him appear to be result-oriented in his own way: in almost all of the court rulings...