Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cambodia has become a net exporter of rice. There is food available, but so much is reserved for export that the standard meal has become fish gruel and banana leaves. Even that is served in communal dining halls, which helps accomplish two government aims: to break up family life and limit opportunities to hoard food, which is needed for escape. Family names are being wiped out in the new order. Cambodians are now referred to by their controllers and the government simply by surname, with the term met (comrade) in front. Comrades are expected to do what they are told...
...Carter Jr. and insisted on just plain Jimmy. Sniffs Mrs. Murray: " 'Jimmy.' Now really!" Indeed for her, Washington is just not the same these days, thanks to James E. Carter Jr. Says she: "Doing away with Ruffles and Flourishes and Hail to the Chief! What does he accomplish by making everything so commonplace...
...properly defined as a quota . . . It's quite clear that for some of the things that a medical school wishes to accomplish that the minority applicant may have qualities that are superior to those of his classmate. He may be far more likely to go back to [his] community to practice medicine where he's needed...
...magazine, first found J.R.R. Tol kien so rich and wonderful. Says proud Fëanor, explaining why he will not give up to the Valar the jewels he worked so hard to craft: "For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest." So it was with Tolkien and his Silmarillion. - Timothy Foote
...race is patterned after the English "Head of the River" events and is designed to test both the steering of the coxswain and the endurance of the oarsmen. Three miles of rowing along the winding Charles River accomplish that goal...