Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CFIA and such practices as racist and sexist pay differentials. His sentence came as no surprise. The CRIMSON's article failed to convey the essence of the situation because it did not mention any of these specific instances of Harvard's exercising its power in the courts to accomplish its political ends: the preservation of the status quo for the benefit of the men who run this country...
Beirut, maintains that there are two ways to view the terrorist. "The sympathetic approach holds that the individual is overcome by despair that he will ever accomplish anything by conventional means, and one implication is the severance of the last ethical link with established values in society." The hostile approach, he says, is to "see a common denominator in childhood experience, psychic debility or even derangement...
...have to use a label like freak,' I'm only admitting that someone has done something better than me. This label stuff is a lot of horseshit. You judge people by whether they waste time or not, not by what they do. If a guy doesn't accomplish anything. I don't care...
There is every indication that their numbers will increase rather than decline. No elections are in sight in Brazil or Argentina, and Peru's ruling junta suggests that it may take 30 years to accomplish the reforms it has in mind. Though Venezuela, Colombia and Costa Rica remain healthy, functioning democracies, Uruguay, the erstwhile "Switzerland of Latin America," is beset by a vicious brand of urban terrorism and worsening economic problems. In neighboring Chile, the Congress is preparing to vote into power the first freely elected Marxist government in world history (see cover story...
...Arab masses were concerned, there was little that the boss could not accomplish. His great value, Arabist Elie Salem of Beirut's American University points out, "was not so much what he did, but what he meant to people." To most, he meant hope. "Saladin achieved success through his political and diplomatic skill," says Salem, "but there was no question of identifying with the masses. Since the time of the Prophet, Nasser was the first leader to address himself to the shaab, the forgotten masses, rather than to the intellectuals." The masses saw him as the hero who would unify...