Word: accomplish
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...University also agreed to meet with students and other community members to access AlliedBarton’s wages and benefits for Harvard workers.But some of the students expressed regret about not being able to accomplish more from their protest...
...troops at Naray took their extension well, emphasizing the critical nature of their role in Afghanistan. They call it "embracing the suck." "Twelve months is long and hard. Fifteen months is longer and harder," says Sgt. Larry Scott Johnson, Weaver's assistant. "But we are soldiers, and we will accomplish the mission...
...Others accentuate the positive, admitting that the extension will allow them to accomplish projects that would have otherwise been dropped, or handed off to incoming troops overwhelmed by the challenge of adapting to the new terrain. As the 10th Mountain prepares to leave Afghanistan at the end of May, Colonel Howard looks back on what he was able to achieve during the period of the extension: A program training Afghan police that has given the provinces of Kunar and Nuristan a more reliable police force; a better relationship with locals forged in regular security meetings with tribal elders...
...Polk is proud of what he has managed to accomplish during his time in Naray. It's a feeling that comes out in his e-mails home, and the way he talks about the tribal elders he has befriended. He's looking forward to the day that he can see a resident of Naray use a mobile phone, turn on a light or drive a paved road to the next district - all projects he and his colleagues initiated during their time here. But those achievements will not be the measure of his success. "We've done a lot of great...
...mantle of a true conservative in a Republican primary that has lacked one. Romney says he wants voters to see "somebody who has unusual experience managing tough situations." He even titled his Olympics memoir Turnaround. The question he must answer now, however, is whether that describes what he can accomplish - or what he is willing to do to get elected...