Word: accomplished
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Those who refuse to wear belts under any circumstances have a host of ingenious ways of deceiving the interlock. Some start the car by leaning in the window and turning the ignition key (with no weight on the front seat, the starter will kick over). Others accomplish the same deception by grasping the steering wheel and pulling themselves up while turning the key. But with both these techniques, as soon as the driver sits down, the buzzer will go off-unless he fastens his seat belt...
...really knows, of course, how many people ultimately would visit a presidential library in Harvard Square. But for a library to accomplish its mission, it must provide a meaningful education program. I do not argue here that presidential libraries are unimportant, nor that this one in particular has been planned in a grandiose fashion. Quite the contrary, because the program has been imaginatively designed to depict the lives of John and Robert Kennedy, it will surely become a major tourist attraction...
This new textbook-style Expos program probably won't accomplish much besides making Expos drudgery for its students next year. And it's unlikely that the standardized program will attract teachers with imagination and independence...
When those being robbed resisted, it became necessary to kill, maim and wound them in order to accomplish the planned robbery. This has always been standard operating procedure (SOP) by the military everywhere, in cases of national aggression. This was and is, of course, the reason for sending troops in the first place. It is certainly conceivable, to me at least, that Calley was doing what he was sent to do, as were many thousands of others. Unfortunately for Calley, his crimes were reported, and it was therefore thought necessary for public relations purposes, to make a scapegoat...
...resale would be "reasonable," but that artists should really get their fringe benefits from museums, not collectors. "Museums," he told a reporter, "make their living on shows." ("And he doesn't?" was Rauschenberg's incredulous reply when told of this.) What this cynical proposal would accomplish would be to tax museums - and therefore art education - in order to let speculative investors continue in their present blaze of laissez-faire. In fact, museums do not "make their living" on exhibitions. They are nonprofit organizations that exist in order to present shows - and the distinction matters a lot, because...