Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decided to spend Spring break this way? What did we think we could accomplish? Why not wait until April 24 or Mayday to join mass protests...
From a teacher's or administrator's point of view these projects are acceptable as long as a student learns addition and sentence structure. But if these projects must be oriented toward the teacher's chosen goal they accomplish only the smallest improvement. The classroom is less gruesome but the child is still not in control of his own life...
Students who had experience with summer or term-time social action experienced a lot of discouragement. Few people felt that they had been able to accomplish anything in a short period. The immensity of the struggle and the realization that one individual could have very little impact was disheartening...
...Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights ended its hearings into the extent of Government surveillance of citizens last week. The hearings produced no clear-cut plans for remedial legislation. They did, however, accomplish the aim of the subcommittee's chairman, North Carolina Senator Sam J. Ervin (TIME, March 8), by dramatizing the difficulty of preserving privacy in a world drifting toward...
...Congress to Unite Women is sponsored by the 29 women's groups which comprise the New England Women's Coalition (NEWCO). The coalition, formed last January, is primarily a planning body which incorporates many ranges of view. The members' intent is to work together to accomplish goals which all women agree upon...