Word: accomplish
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...restructuring plan flies in the face of the most salient trend of the late twentieth century; that is, the decreasing importance of physical proximity as information technology allows easy interaction at any distance. Perhaps Rudenstine would accomplish a great deal more if he sped up the implementation of the high speed data network rather than engineering a mass-migration across the Yard...
...whether it will change when the next major crisis arrives, as it inevitably will. Public attention has focused on the trouble spots and the Administration's disorganized, amateurish response to them. Says a former U.S. diplomat: "The top levels don't know what they want to accomplish...
...fine, but have you considered looking in that "Ec-10" book sitting untouched on your shelf to figure out why it is that, when it costs us about $7.50 per dinner, only $1.50 of it is actually going to the homeless? Or, for an advanced problem, how we could accomplish the same thing much more efficiently, and perhaps even do better...
...with student needs. Buses to Yale, a tailgate at The Game, change machines in the laundry rooms, cable TV in the dorms and houses, longer hours for campus libraries, flexible meal plans, and a large festival in the Yard are only a portion of what the Council expects to accomplish this year. Is White trying to tell students that they do not want things such as longer library hours? Clearly, then, the UC does not represent the interests of the student body...
Pressuring television executives worried about regulation to make a few cuts is far easier than getting guns off the street or instilling morality in the population; no one really knows how to accomplish the latter goals...