Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Several ranking representatives have already indicated opposition to using the council's $35,000 activities budget to support anything even vaguely "political." Since the entire 89-person assembly will approve all grants, this potentially paralyzing fear of partisanship should be set aside. Money should go to organizations which efficiently accomplish goals council members as a group endorse. Labels such as "liberal" and "conservative" should...
...rates of both price increases and unemployment rose irregularly but seemingly inexorably. Democrats who assail the Republican President for inducing a slump conveniently forget that Jimmy Carter all but openly engineered a recession in 1980 as a means of reducing inflation. That downturn, however, was too short to accomplish much...
THREE YEARS AGO, when they were still ducking food thrown in dining halls and fighting to keep their posters from being defaced and torn down, the members of a small and struggling Gay Students Association (GSA) might not have believed they could accomplish so much so soon. This fall, Harvard's first funded student government elected a gay student--in fact, a highly visible gay activist--its first chairman...
...other flagrant violations of international law would be to reduce the choice of response to one between military action and acquiescence-an unattractive choice at the best of times and particularly so in a nuclear age." That said, Renwick cautions against any great expectations about what sanctions can accomplish...
...into words how much the hostages had come to mean to me, or how moved I was that morning to know they were coming home. At the same time, I was leaving the home I'd known for four years, too soon for all I had hoped to accomplish...