Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Orleans they have a mechanism called Bourbon Street, designed to accomplish this separation with maximum efficiency. Tourists seethe up and down bourbon Street like muddy water in a bayou, clutching takeaway mint juleps and Hurricanes (a vile and overpriced cocktail sold only to tourists) in big paper cups. Fast talking slicks in white tuxedoes, looking like Elvis Presley's manager admitting Priscilla's age at a press conference, wait outside strip joints, holding the doors open for tantalizing glimpses of the flesh within On the sidewalks young entrepreneurs hawk shoeshines, "SHIT HAPPENS-on Bourbon St." sweatshirts, voodoo masks, even chances...
...terms of our team and what we were trying to accomplish, we just couldn't come to agreement," Fish said. "I was sorry to see it get to that point...
Freireich conceded that these goals would be difficult to accomplish during a five-day tour that includes Easter weekend in a predominantly Catholic country. "We've got some holes in this plan," she said...
...watch as she struggled through her presentation. It wasn't the numerous technical guffaws, the overly long acceptance speeches, all the celebrities taking themselves way too seriously, nor the fat women sandwiched into their designer dresses. All of these are standard Oscar fare, and this year's show accomplish with all the precision we've come to expect from the Academy...
...legitimate shelters and reduce the incentive for chiseling by cutting the maximum tax rate from 50% to an eventual 28%. But tax experts doubt that the shelter game is over. Says John McAtee, a securities lawyer with Davis Polk & Wardwell: "The Government will continue to create new loopholes to accomplish economic and social goals." Smooth-talking operators will continue to tempt wealthy investors with creative -- and not always legitimate -- ways to use those loopholes...