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...added firepower helped Harvard to accomplish something it failed to in eight attempts last year—knock off a Princeton relay squad for a first-place finish...
...role as one portal of entry for students to get help, but also to be able to use all the mental health services that are available to provide treatment.” The Bureau awaits the full report and recommendations of the Task Force as to how best to accomplish this goal...
...this was one of the start-and-stop projects on which NASA lavished dead-end research dollars in the 1980s. "From 1961 to 1973," says Zubrin, "we had Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Ranger, Mariner, Surveyor, and we developed almost all the space technology we have today. What did we accomplish in the '90s? We flew half-a-dozen robotic probes and 60 shuttle missions...
...decision-making process in the White House will highlight the larger political and ideological warfare that has gripped Washington and kept good ideas from becoming law. Perhaps naively or arrogantly, or both, he even believes it may help change the climate. Ask him what he hopes the book will accomplish, and he will talk about Social Security reform in earnest tones: tough choices won't be made in Washington so long as it shuns honest dialogue, bipartisanship and intellectual thoroughness. O'Neill may not have been cut out for this town, but give him this: he does exhibit the sobriety...
...Surri fails to accomplish something Doc asks--say, cleaning out the car or working in the garden--he might spank her or stand her in the corner as though she were a wayward child. When she succeeds, he might call her a "good girl" or give her a small gift. ("I filled out one of those online profiles that ask for your favorite quote, and mine was 'Good girl,'" says Surri. "Hearing [Doc] say that makes me happier than anything else in the world.") Surri, who turns 38 this month, particularly enjoys such "age play" when...