Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next step, according to Harrison, is to transform Norfolk into a "major opera center," with summer and light opera and a touring company. "If we've done what we've done in three years, we can certainly accomplish that," says Harrison confidently. If Mary is any measure, she is right...
...effort was doomed from the start. The task force's very name--"Core Curriculum"--predisposed it not to accomplish anything very valuable, for implicit in the name are some fundamentally wrong assumptions about the nature of the modern educational experience...
...Carter urged Brazilians to consider fueling their nuclear reactors with thorium rather than uranium. Reason: uranium-fueled reactors produce more plutonium that can readily be used in nuclear weapons than thorium-fueled reactors would produce. But Geisel seemed unpersuaded, and Carter did not press the matter. "What would it accomplish?" asked a top White House aide. "Neither side is going to change, so we might as well spend our time discussing things of mutual interest." Thus discussions centered on economic relations and prospects for peace in the Middle East and in southern Africa...
Unfortunately, the Core fails to accomplish these objectives; moreover, it poses serious impediments to the personal growth and development of undergraduates...
...kids realized what was happening around them," Joe says, "and their music became very rebellious and energetic. Then there was a lot of disillusionment because they realized that all the work of the '60s really didn't accomplish much...