Word: accomplish
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Throughout the 1960s, the Government marshaled extraordinary resources to accomplish a pair of Promethean feats: Americans were dispatched to the moon, and the country was overlaid with a brand-new web of nonstop superhighways. The space program remains a source of national pride. The Interstate Highway System? Most people take it for granted, except when they hit an unfinished stretch and find themselves rerouted along old, slow roads. Yet the Interstate has had a singularly profound effect on the way Americans live...
...course, the best alternative would be increased public funding of research, and I support efforts to accomplish that result...
...York Times to be delving into Boston's management of money received from Washington to rejuvenate deteriorating neighborhoods. A highly critical audit released by HUD this month claimed that the city had run up "excessive, unreasonable and improper costs" in a block-grant program, while failing to accomplish the intended goals...
...F.D.R. Indeed, for a time in 1981, when he had Congress eating out of his hand, it seemed as though mastery of TV and one-on-one charm had become the very key to the presidency. Events and realities of 1982 suggest some limits on what a President can accomplish by communicating. TV is still a major resource for a President, more important in governing than in getting elected. Carter, Nixon and L.BJ. all won elections (two of them landslides) without being compelling TV personalities. Nixon was excellent on radio. L.B.J. was an overwhehning persuader close in, a gripper...
...seek destiny, just as it was for Meursault to seek the guillotine. Forty years later you have a good identity. What does it matter if you are Christian? In these times only a Jew can move with such case in the realm of destiny and identity. But to accomplish this, one must choose--and you have made a choice. After a life of pleasant experiences, you arrived here, not some other place. It was a perfect choice. Perhaps as perfect as Meursault's in his indifferent assassin's cell...