Word: accomplish
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...sorties by young and old into the streets with brooms and garbage bags are only part of Keep America Beautiful. "A one-day cleanup doesn't accomplish anything," explained Sidney H. Estes, assistant superintendent for instruction for the Atlanta public schools and chairman of the Atlanta Clean City Commission. "Unless you educate people and change their Uttering behavior, you be back up to your knees in junk a day later...
Carter, however, had his own candidate in mind: Muskie. Vice President Walter Mondale also favored Muskie. He doubted that the reserved Christopher could accomplish a necessary job: moving Brzezinski back into the shadows a bit. Mondale and a number of White House staffers believed that the National Security Adviser was hurting Carter by acting so flamboyantly. Muskie, they felt, could handle Brzezinski: he was well known for his self-confidence and his hair-trigger temper...
Much more will be needed before the penal system can be called even tolerable. That day is not likely to come until the public stops thinking of prison as a symbol and begins coldly assessing what prisons can and cannot accomplish. A good deal of expert thought has already been devoted to the question. In 1973, for instance, the National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals concluded a sober review with this recommendation: "Prisons should be repudiated as useless for any purpose other than locking away persons who are too dangerous to be allowed at large...
...undergraduate, liberal arts education ranks among the lowest priorities of those running the Harvard complex. For all the debate and genuine concern undergraduate curricular reform has engendered, Bok and his administration continue to weaken the stance of liberal arts at Harvard with their choices of tasks for Harvard to accomplish under their guidance. Long before undergraduates can press their claim on Harvard's resources, other programs siphon off faculty and money from Arts and Sciences. Professional education benefits at the expense of liberal arts, the supposed foundation for the other schools...
Otherwise, nothing was settled on the substantive questions. The most important is what authority will be exercised by a self-governing council to be elected by the Arabs of the West Bank and Gaza. As Carter noted in his press conference last week, "If we can accomplish that, then the details of exactly how to administer land and water rights and how to administer other specific elements of security, like controlling terrorism, I think will be resolved without delay." Sadat wants the council to act as a legislature. Begin is adamantly opposed, contending that the council should have only narrow...