Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quality. Some people fear that affirmative action will inevitably conflict with our efforts to maintain high standards of teaching and scholarship. I disagree. If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it. To accomplish this result, we must observe two import principles...
Whatever else Sharp's trip may accomplish, it inspired one of the most remarkable cocktail parties ever held in Saigon. Staged by Canada's effervescent chief ICCS delegate, Michel Gauvin, it attracted 200 guests representing an unprecedented assortment of former enemies. On hand was TIME'S Saigon Bureau Chief Gavin Scott to take a few surreptitious notes...
...other ethnic groups in the city. He casually backed the Ocean Hill-Brownsville experiment that eventually pitted black militants against the largely Jewish teachers union in a struggle for control of a school district. Latent ethnic antagonisms erupted brutally into the open, making integration all the harder to accomplish...
...corporations, who do not want to tell stockholders that they lost millions by holding onto dollars that fell in value. Volkswagenwerk is said to have saved as much as $60 million by switching some $500 million from dollars into marks in the summer before the Smithsonian agreement. Businessmen can accomplish much "speculation" by the usually praiseworthy expedient of paying their bills promptly and in full. A U.S. executive buying Japanese structural steel may enclose a check with his order rather than wait until the steel is delivered and the dollar's value may have fallen...
...have previously observed, the information and advice given to students are heavily weighted toward describing the bodies of knowledge that will be covered in the courses offered. Little effort is made to help students to decide what they wish to accomplish through their college education and how they might best realize their aims. Many universities have tried to meet this problem by devising new schemes of faculty advising. These efforts almost uniformly fail, since many professors are too preoccupied with their teaching and research to give more than perfunctory advice. Moreover, such schemes are seriously limited by the fact that...