Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people from the different organizations seem very optimistic and I think we have been successful in emphasizing our differences as well as overlooking them when necessary," she said. "We've come together to accomplish a common goal...
...face facts. Notwithstanding the indignant cries of environmental destruction and destroyed parkland, most of the outrage boils down to the fact that opponents don't want something big and ugly in Cambridge. A "not in my backyard" attitude may score political points, but it does not accomplish solutions or work toward a meaningful compromise...
...this new world order and the basics for implementing collective security, we will have to lay down the proposition that while military action may be ultimately required to respond to aggression, we -- the world -- will carry out an extended period of sanctions, and we won't expect them to accomplish in five months what probably would take 12 or 18 months...
...coalition's 675,000 active personnel, among them deployments ranging from 36,000 crack Egyptian infantrymen down to some Afghan mujahedin guerrillas and 150 troops from Honduras. What the smaller land contingents -- as well as the token few warships sent by countries like Australia, Spain and Greece -- could accomplish that the alliance's core partners could not remained unanswered by the Pentagon. Even such a muscular U.S. ally as Italy, moreover, kept its participation to a minimum. Said Sergeant Robert Castellano, 26, a U.S. airman: "We look at our troop strength and we look at the others, and we feel...
...more than a year after the arrest of the loathsome dictator, it's fair to ask: What did we accomplish in Panama? Because if Panama is to be our standard for success and the yardstick by which any action in the Persian Gulf may be measured, we ought to know what "success" looks like -- after the smoke clears, that is, and the dead have all been laid to rest...