Word: accomplish
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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...
While he pursues radical farm policies in the south, Mengistu remains at war in the north. "If he could solve the security problems in his country," says Gunter Verheugen, African-affairs spokesman for the West German Social Democratic Party, "then Mengistu might be able to accomplish his dream of making the country self-sufficient in food and improving the standard of living of his people." That is not likely in the foreseeable future. Ethiopia's standing army of 300,000 soldiers is the largest in black Africa, but it remains vulnerable to guerrilla actions. A lightning strike by the Tigre...
...taking and not much giving. It's not that he's holier than thou, it's just that he has his own personal agenda." Says Bradley's media adviser, Michael Kaye: "He's everyone's friend but nobody's friend. He's so concerned about what he wants to accomplish that he hasn't joined the club...
...Because of the President's personal commitment to the program," explains Talbott, "many sources of SDI stories had been willing to speak to the press only on background. We were determined to have our session on the record. One way to accomplish that was to invite the highest-ranking, most authoritative people on the subject." During a day that started at 7:45 a.m. and continued to 9 p.m., 30 TIME editors, writers, correspondents and reporter-researchers assembled in Washington to hear -- on the record -- a nonstop list of speakers, including SDI Director Lieut. General James Abrahamson...
...would be permitted to join them. In addition, Boris Gulko, a former national chess champion who applied seven years ago to emigrate to Israel, finally received permission and flew to Vienna. Such gestures may temporarily deflect criticism of the way the Soviet Union treats dissenters. But nothing would accomplish that goal so effectively as giving Sakharov and his wife a chance to spend the rest of their lives in peace...