Word: accomplish
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...school is not without its detractors. The most common criticism is that it teaches, in the words of Washington Monthly Editor Charles Peters, "the art of public administration, how to get elected instead of the issues that government is trying to accomplish...
Mary Jo Bane, a professor of public policy at the school, who is now a chief policy advisor at the New York State Department of Social Services, said, "Working as a government bureaucrat has made me more humble" on how much government alone can accomplish...
...before conditions finally allowed them to launch their 46-meter-tall balloon. But at last they caught the weather just right. After a flawless flight across the Atlantic, Pilot Henk Brink, 42, his wife Evelien, 31, and Fighter Pilot Willem Hageman, 39, last week became the first Europeans to accomplish the balloon voyage and, with a time of 51 hrs. 14 min., shaved more than a day off the old record. "A piece of cake," said Hageman. The only hitch in their speedy journey (up to 76 m.p.h.) was when the Dutch Viking touched down a little fast...
Designating drugs a crisis now, the nation tears out its hair in public, calls out the Air Force, the border patrols, the Republicans, the Democrats. "War!" cry the city mayors. What does America mean to accomplish by this call to arms? The prosecution of criminals? The rescue of lives? A self- purgation -- all minds clean and alert again in a sweep...
...school is not without its detractors. The most common criticism is that it teaches, in the words of Washington Monthly Editor Charles Peters, "the art of public administration, how to get elected instead of the issues that government is trying to accomplish...