Word: accomplishements
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...that these books don't ring true. They're just weirdly uninterested in how little of '60s protest culture involved violence and how much it actually did accomplish. You get the feeling that attacking idealists of the past--indeed, associating them with terrorism--is a backhanded way of excusing the miserable, apathetic state of political protest in the present. At least the hippies cared about something--even if it wasn't personal hygiene...
NCLB is fouled up because it doesn’t have enough muscle, and the consequences are severe. Although national scores have improved slightly and the racial achievement gap is narrowing in some parts of the country, NCLB fails to accomplish what its proponents said it would. Fourth graders can read in South Carolina but not in Tennessee. Eighth grade test scores are improving, but high school scores are plummeting...
...able to get elected, or to be able to accomplish things after? E.K.: Afterward. I came to the Senate to get things done. We've been able to achieve a number of important achievements, and I want to continue that. My interest is in getting things done, and I think he has the ability to bring people together, not only for an election, but to achieve it. And that was the fundamental reason for my involvement...
...simply can't be understood without a nod to what he calls the "mystery and majesty" of the cell. Well before he became involved constructing artificial life, he christened his sailboat with a name that may reveal as much about that awareness as about what he is trying to accomplish: he called it Sorcerer...
...Guantánamo and elsewhere should not receive similar treatment, instead of languishing in a facility that even President Bush has said he wants to be able to shut down. Allowing hundreds of defendants there to enter U.S. courts?and, if convicted, U.S. prisons?may be the only way to accomplish that...