Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the movie deals with boxing, the violence on which it focuses is not the brutalization of the body but the devastation of the human spirit. It centers on Billy Tully, an overaged boxer whose psychological survival depends on a comeback he cannot rationally hope to accomplish. After a year-and-a-half away from the ring, he succeeds only in beating a washed-up Mexican fighter for a $100 purse. Within a year, he is outshined by his own protege, an eighteen-year-old youngster with no previous experience, who has the strength and the discipline Tully will never...
...following the new ways and the other continuing to do what it had always done. It also left us feeling that we aren't a family business any longer. They asked us questions about what we thought our purpose was, what we thought our apparatus was supposed to accomplish and what we thought of our results. You don't ask those kinds of questions in a family business...
...Askew." McGovern placed a call to the Florida Governor, who was about to leave on vacation for North Carolina. Askew asked for time to consider, and McGovern reached him, again in midafternoon in Asheville, N.C. Askew then declined on grounds that there was too much he wanted to accomplish in Florida...
...novelist, propounder of extreme solutions to mundane problems, he could never see why conventional critics often dismissed him as a gadfly. "I am a humanist," he said, "and everything I do has exactly the same subject-the organism and the environment. Anything I write is pragmatic-it aims to accomplish something...
...Frieden, to encourage building construction and to give support to low-income families that might not otherwise be able to afford decent housing. "While both of these goals should clearly be reflected in any enlightened overall housing policy, it is questionable whether programs can be devised which will accomplish both simultaneously," Frieden said...