Word: accomplish
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...This obviously won’t happen, but if you could only accomplish one thing as UC president and vice-president, what would...
...doubts are likely to persist until the outer mural is temporarily removed and the wall behind it is finally opened--if it ever is. For now, Seracini is trying at least to show that Leonardo's mural is likely to be there. To accomplish that, he's using an instrument he developed in collaboration with the University of California at San Diego and Emory University to capture chemical clues of any paint colors that may be present behind the wall. There's a good chance that Culture Minister Francesco Rutelli will grant Seracini permission in the next year...
...with Coop officials was frustrating, said Petersen, who had initially hoped that the Coop would freely provide the ISBN numbers of the textbooks it carried. “Our goal is to make sure textbooks are cheaper both in the store and online and the only way we can accomplish that is by working with the Coop,” he said. “Which is why this setback has been a little disappointing.” According to a senior manager at the Coop who requested to go unnamed because of store policy, the UC representatives were asked...
...this is. Probably nobody knows better how complicated the politics are. I'm ready to get out there again. I'm ready to roll up my sleeves and work with people. But this time, I want to be sure that we have a political consensus about what we can accomplish together, because there will be a tremendous amount of pressure from those who don't want to change the system as we know it, because they do well by it. So we have to go into this with our eyes wide open and with sufficient political will to be able...
China has lately been touted to overtake the United States in Internet usage, but the country's blogosphere is a fascinating, still evolving animal. When mobilized, China's 100 million-plus netizens can, by collective effort, accomplish noble ends. Take the case of Foxconn, a Taiwanese company with a factory in the southern boomtown of Shenzhen. After two local journalists published an article questioning labor conditions in the factory (which made parts for Apple's I-pod), Foxconn sued them personally for millions of dollars. But the resulting hue-and-cry on the web prompted the company to back down...