Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because, as one adviser said, "You're never going to get enough ammunition into this place to give you automatic weapons fire for much longer." With some 20,000 Communist troops tearing up Binh Dinh province on the coast, it seemed likely that the Communists might try to accomplish one "spectacular" that narrowly eluded them in 1965: slicing the country...
Without busing, the only real solution is neighborhood integration, which would take years to accomplish even if it were to be adopted as an all-out national goal-and that is unlikely. Since Johns Hopkins Sociologist James Coleman's celebrated study in 1966, all research has suggested that a child's home environment-his family's educational and economic status-has more effect on how well he learns than anything he encounters in school...
Critical Mass. Nevertheless, school integration can accomplish a great deal. Since Coleman's investigation, researchers have verified that poor black children do at least marginally better in white-majority classrooms, presumably because they pick up their middle-class white schoolmates' learning skills and attitudes toward education...
...this year I would like to express my dismay that he Crimson printed the Thursday, April 13 article about the problems with the basketball team. The printing of the article showed a shocking lack of respect for the dignity that every man deserves, and besides that, what did it accomplish? It only hurt vastly the team's chances for making next year a more successful one. The players on the team were al very disappointed with this year and nobody will deny that problems existed on the team, but the place for such grievances to be worked...
...REMAINS FOR the Vietnamese to accomplish what no antiwar movement in this country has been able to do: to rid South Vietnam of the Thieu regime and end American involvement in Indochina. Yet that does not diminish the feeling that our support for the North Vietnamese in the time of their greatest anguish and trial must be strong and convincing. The Vietnamese fighters whom American planes are bombing are not our enemies: they are the only progressive force in South Vietnam. It is time we realized this, and put our realization into practice. And the time has long since arrived...