Word: accomplish
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Meese: It's too early to talk about compromises because we're just holding the hearings now. I think that no president ever gets exactly the same budget he sends to Congress, but I think this budget has been carefully worked out. The budget strategy is to accomplish our various objectives of maintaining the social safety net, of protecting the truly needy, maintaining our defense build up at the level that is required, of having essentially the freeze on other programs taken as a whole and developing the strategy of a declining deficit pattern for future years. I think...
Walter N. Rothschild '42, one of the Campaign's national co-chairmen, says the dinners, which usually included a regional alumni speaker and a representative from the College who addressed the needs of the Campaign, were an entertaining means to accomplish a more serious end. "Everyone knew what they were coming to hear, but the parties were pretty fun," Rothschild says...
While Wicker and Wright conceded that Reagan had at least attempted to accomplish the policies he promised in his campaign they questioned whether these efforts represented the right approach to solving the country economic problems...
...here and see what their plans are before we rush into something," said Independent Councillor Leonard J. Russell. In haste, we accomplish nothing...
Cordier's duty is to protect the innocent; the trouble is, as he ruefully observes, no one is innocent any more. In the circumstances, the policeman's unhappy but bitterly logical lot is to help people accomplish efficiently the evil to which they aspire. In the course of this process, many will manage to do themselves in; the rest will find themselves in such a weakened condition that they will be easy prey for even the laziest lawman. In Coup de Torchon (Clean Slate), Director Bertrand Tavernier has had the good sense to cast Philippe Noiret, the underplayer...