Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accomplish that...
Noble views herself as a free agent of positive change. She wants to serve on the council for as long as it takes to accomplish her agenda, and then get out, as she did as a legislator. Lifetime professional politics, she says, "makes you funny in the head." She does not want to lose the disattached perspective that allows her to see the quirks and flaws in progressive Cambridge that she says the "shadow of Harvard and MIT" tends to obscure...
...importance, the mission has not escaped criticism. When it was unveiled, detractors complained that, like the controversial space station Freedom, it could turn into a huge, unmanageable boondoggle. "NASA is obsessed with giantism," contends Robert Park, director of the Washington office of the American Physical Society. "They want to accomplish good, solid environmental science," he says, but have proposed to do it with complex, untested hardware. The mammoth price tag is also a concern. Richard Darman, head of the Office of Management and Budget, reportedly quipped, "I didn't know we needed a $30 billion thermometer...
...What do you hope to accomplish as Archbishop...
...well, the first film to accomplish the hat trick at the Cannes festival (best picture, best director and best actor), and we all understand, don't we, that when it comes to our own movies, the French always know what's best for -- and by -- us American primitives...