Word: accomplish
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...incredibly important,” Flood said of the game. “We’ve been saying ‘next game, next game’ all year. Realistically, we’re going to have to do very well in the Ivy League to accomplish our goal of making the NCAA tournament.”That will be a tough task, considering that the nation’s number one team, Cornell, as well as also undefeated Yale—not to mention perennial powers Dartmouth and Princeton—all grace the second half of Harvard?...
...want to do so without emptying your wallet. But we humbly submit that the average Harvard student is more than up to the task. Which is why we find the recent decision of the Undergraduate Council (UC) to spend $1,000 on a 21st century Rube Goldberg machine to accomplish the same feat perplexing, especially in light of its record of questionable spending decisions. At its most recent meeting, the UC voted to pay for the development of a new Web site, called UC Rides, that will match up Logan-bound students with others who would like to share cabs...
...only because he was not Tung-and because he was a local boy made good-Tsang came into office with much goodwill. But his first two years as Chief Executive were marked more by what he could not accomplish than what he did. In 2005, he was unable to push through a limited set of political reforms that would have increased the size of the body that picks the Chief Executive and added 10 seats to the legislature. The proposals were blocked by democratic lawmakers who felt the changes didn't go far enough and who objected, also...
...thought that we could do this except us, and I’m extremely proud of what our team was able to accomplish,” coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said after the game. “And it means as much for the Ivy League as it does for Harvard. Our League has had some great athletes and our top team has always been competitive in the NCAAs...
...however, the abolition of any expression of student preference in the housing lottery in fact undermined the very goal it had intended to accomplish...