Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Almost casually Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said the President was "aware" of talk about his resigning but was determined to concentrate on what he had "to accomplish in the second term." Instead of watching the Watergate testimony on television, he relied on a daily summary prepared at the direction of the new White House chief of staff General Alexander Haig. Most afternoons and evenings he secluded himself in the Executive Office Building, where he was said to be preparing for next month's meeting with Soviet Communist Leader Leonid Brezhnev...
...from our knowledge that De Gaulle died peacefully and privately years after the events alleged here. Eventually we begin to earnestly wonder if the net we see drawing ever more tightly around the Jackal will close in time or whether he will succeed in squirming through it to accomplish his mission impossible...
...those involved as principals are themselves attorneys,* more than usual care went into their choice of lawyers. And while those lawyers do not run to a type-they range from unknowns to the very prominent-the roster of legal counselors may reflect what their clients may want them to accomplish...
Finally, consumers must have substantial input and influence on the functioning of a health care facility. If we are to accomplish this, consumers must prove that they are responsible, reachable, willing to work to achieve their goals, and determined to make their opinions heard and responded to. Haphazard, halfway efforts only convince professionals that consumers can't really become involved in the issues that matter. And all too often that's all we come up with...
...stated aim of the Communist offensive is not to overrun Phnom-Penh itself, a feat that the Communists probably could not accomplish anyway because they do not have the troops to do it. Rather the aim is to bring the war as close to the capital as possible, in the hope that civil unrest will lead to the fall of Marshal Lon Nol's regime...