Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Being aware, you are unwilling to go to but and if necessary lay your job as president on the line to accomplish what needed to be accomplished. You may therefore take your choice as to whether "ignorance" or "ignominy" more aptly describes the basis of your behavior...
This is easy to urge but next to impossible to accomplish. Any attempts to take back last year's cuts would reunite the special interests that pressed for them so successfully in the first place. Even the most widely derided of the tax breaks have powerful defenders. Says Massachusetts Congressman James Shannon, a member of the Ways and Means Committee: "The loopholes that should be jettisoned first are the ones least likely...
...advised freshmen when they arrived in late September," every man should have a wholesome horror of that happy-go-lucky state of doing nothing but enough class-room work to keep him off probation. It is not so much brilliance as effort that is appreciated here--determination to accomplish something." After a long list of possible athletic, literary or religious activities, he added, "surely the average freshman can choose at least one of these and go into it with all his energy...
Arguing against conscription is more difficult than illustrating the pointlessness of registration. The draft would accomplish several worthy goals. By forcing educated, white males from middle-and upper-class backgrounds into uniform, the government could begin to correct the over-representation of minorities and the poor now serving in the military. Badly depleted reserve divisions could be replenished, improving the country's capacity to respond to a genuine foreign threat. And in theory, it could be done equitably, unlike previous drafts. Various legislations have proposed universal service programs: no exemptions, short terms of active duty, and alternative non-military options...
...irony here. What they have succeeded in doing is to shut Poland down, to bring it to a halt. The real challenge is just the opposite, to get the country moving again. And, as a result of what has happened, this will now be harder than ever to accomplish...