Word: accomplish
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...help her mother dish out bowls of steaming white rice to go with the hot pots. "My daughter said what we're doing is admirable," Mrs. Chung recalls. "We both cried when our children told us how proud they were." As the Chungs are discovering, the pioneer spirit can accomplish...
...manipulate our sensitivities and consciences. Our bombs, we are told, will bring about "peace" and "autonomy"--two of a politician's most effectively ambiguous words. What exactly are "peace" and "autonomy" in a region as volatile and disparate as Kosovo? And how exactly will bombings from the air accomplish this slippery ideal...
...though the blitzkrieg Milosevic launched didn't quite accomplish that, it has already remade the face of Kosovo. Some 40,000 regular Serb troops, special police, paramilitary units and ultranationalist gangs tore through Kosovo "with complete ferocity," says a NATO official. "The intensity was not anticipated." And now NATO is scrambling to revise its war plan in a race against time. "He's working very, very fast," said NATO commanding General Wesley Clark, "trying to present the world with a fait accompli...
Having been outscored 157-89 thus far, and with a team ERA of 8.66, that will be difficult to accomplish unless the Big Red can get some quality pitching and a little pop at the plate. With a struggling pitching staff, they will have to ride the metal ore of their outfielders' bats...
Throughout the discussion, panelists bemoaned NATO's public declarations about the extent of force they were willing to use to accomplish their goals...