Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unconscious source.... This type of person serves Soviet interests and works under KGB control without realizing what he is doing. Lenin used to call such people useful idiots. Without being conscious KGB agents, they are often in a position to accomplish far more for the Soviet Union than the people who are knowingly working...
Legislation I have introduced would accomplish this by requiring state courts to give full faith and credit to custody decrees of other states. This would prevent a parent who either loses or fears losing a custody suit in one state from seeking a more favorable custody decree in another state. The bill would also allow the FBI to be brought in after 60 days, if the child is not found, and create a federal misdemeanor offense of "parental kidnaping...
...department always tries to get a new generation," Strauch said, adding that he expected the pair to follow in the footsteps of their predecessors, including Nobel Prize winners Sheldon L. Glashow, Professor of Physics, and Steven Weinberg, Higgins Professor of Physics. "We expect them to accomplish as much as those before them," Strauch added...
Whether Reagan can accomplish what he intends will not be known until he is put to the test. Like many successful politicians, he is essentially an enigma. Says one shrewd Massachusetts Republican leader who has known and supported Reagan for many years: "I know George Bush. I know Howard Baker. I know Phil Crane. I know Bob Dole. I even know John Anderson. They all know me. But I don't know Ronald Reagan. If he came into a room where I was, someone would have to tell him my name. He is the most aloof politician I have ever...
Brubaker is a difficult film to dislike, and for that reason it may accomplish part of its goal, which is to educate audiences to the bloody reality of prison existence. But as entertainment, it remains somewhat bland and predictable. Redford--Murton--drives off into the sunset, leaving behind a plantation of untamed men whose personal well-being he has sacrificed to protect his moral principles...