Word: accomplishing
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...relates to a host of complex problems surrounding the role of the university in society, and Bok is right to be concerned. Moreover, the effects of regulation have not all been positive. Some rules have certainly not been well thought out, while others have been too weakly framed to accomplish much of anything. There is room for improvement and, as Bok says, Harvard could contribute to the formation of wiser policies...
...teach adult education. For some, it seems to be too late. "I was always happy," concludes Mollie Linker. "But if I would have had an education, with my mind, if I had taken the time, I probably would turn out to be something else." "No, I didn't accomplish what I wanted," says Pearl Moscowitz. "Because I wanted an education...
...isolationist camp, explains that liberals who propose means of cutting the defense budget are for the most part deceiving both the public and themselves. Ravenal feels that proposed cuts based on efficiency, on Pentagon personnel extravagances, or on a thinning-out principle, beg the fundamental question and accomplish virtually nothing. This fundamental question is, of course, what is our defense budget for, or to put it another way, what defines the American national interest and what defines national security. To try to effect defense budget cuts without re-ordering U.S. foreign policy and redefining these principles is, according to Ravenal...
Those who agree with the tiresome cliché that there is so much to accomplish on earth, hence why bother to go into space, were not moved by the occasion. Others took it as a metaphor for all kinds of human progress, which has received an undeservedly bad name. As Goddard wrote to H.G. Wells in 1932, " 'Aiming at the stars,' both literally and figuratively, is a problem to occupy generations, so that no matter how much progress one makes, there is always the thrill of just beginning...
...that on June 8 Californians will go to the polls not only to choose among presidential candidates but to vote on a nuclear referendum. Proposition 15 on the ballot is not, as some opponents have charged, a proposal to outlaw nuclear power plants. Yet, if enacted, the measure could accomplish exactly that. The California initiative would ban the construction of 28 new plants planned for the state over the next two decades unless they met stringent safety standards and won approval by a two-thirds vote in both houses of the state's legislature...