Word: accomplishements
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...international summit on the convention held last week in Bali, Indonesia, environmentalists and many poor countries insisted the agreement had failed, and pointed to the growth in e-waste as a main reason. "We are faced with the ugly truth that the Basel Convention has been unable to accomplish even the prerequisite steps of addressing the inequities and exploitation made possible by globalization," Jim Puckett, director of the Seattle-based Basel Action Network, told delegates at Bali...
What do you hope to accomplish on your trip to Washington...
...think about were their own. How do you effectively control another person's eating behavior? How do you motivate someone--especially a young, impulsive, pleasure-driven someone--to make smart food choices, to get up off the couch, to turn off the television? And how do you accomplish that without making that young person feel deprived, coerced or--worse yet--judged and found wanting? Perhaps most vexing for parents who are themselves veterans of weight-loss wars, how do you credibly persuade a child to take hold of an issue that you may never have been able to control yourself...
...West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller, the committee's chair, said it plain: "It is my belief that the Bush Administration was fixated on Iraq, and used the 9/11 attacks by al-Qaeda as justification for overthrowing Sadaam Hussein. To accomplish this, top Administration officials made repeated statements that falsely linked Iraq and al-Qaeda as a single threat...
...goals.Ultimately, the protracted fight between College and UC led to a lot of fuss and little progress, as the final agreement the two sides reached represented an almost complete capitulation to the College’s original demands. The outcome made one wonder what the UC was trying to accomplish by burning precious political capital in a bloody battle against a more or less undefeatable adversary.However, when there was a willingness among students and administrators to work together, both parties benefited. Nowhere was this more apparent than in the resurgence of the College Events Board (CEB) and its biggest event...