Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Delaney-Smith, however, there will always be more to accomplish. Admirably, she not only takes pride in the products of her labor, but also in the labor itself. When asked what she hopes people remember about her, her reply is simple: "I want them to know how hard I worked and how much I cared...
Invoking morality as an argument against the resolution or referring to the lifestyle of people who choose to consider themselves transgendered as "detrimental," as some have done, is likely to accomplish little, apart from being hurtful and politically unwise. These tactics assuredly will not rally the sort of opposition to the resolution that is so warranted, however justified the opponents feel they may be in using this approach...
China, Deng told President Jimmy Carter in 1979, would need a long period of peace to realize its full modernization. To accomplish that, he added, China would also need Western money and know-how. Flinging open the doors, he led China on a capitalist drive from which there is no turning back...
...this year's Quakers are anything but woeful. Penn has already posted two wins--over Columbia and Yale--a feat it did not accomplish until its 24th game of the season last year. Penn's last game was a one-point loss to second-place Cornell...
...Peter King, a vocal Gingrich critic, came back into the fold, both pledging to vote for Newt on Jan. 7. What remains, however, is the problem House Republicans feared still more: daily partisan warfare over Gingrich that will make it even more difficult for their diminished majority to accomplish anything meaningful...