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Word: accomplishing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Women faculty say they are unable to evade themany administrative and teaching demands placed onthem. "Women find it harder to say no than men do,and others find it harder to accept from women,"says Johnson. Lewalski says women try even harderthan men to accomplish everything, and that, as aconsequence, they fall more easily into thepattern of assuming departmental responsibility...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Tenuring Women Profs: Not the 7% Solution | 3/3/1988 | See Source »

...them down the street at breakneck speed, and to turn normally healthy young Harvard students into quivering lumps of processed vegetable matter. At the same time I wanted to force all Honda drivers into trees and make garbage trucks do triple Louganis spins into brick walls. My plan would accomplish all this, and more...

Author: By John J. Murphy, | Title: Brain Strains and Automobiles | 2/25/1988 | See Source »

...simply--as other critics have suggested--a lack of talent and maturity on the squad? What can a bunch of college-age kids hope to accomplish against two-dozen hardened Soviets, many of whom are in their middle 20's and have skated for years on Soviet select teams...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Olympic Panic Sets In | 2/23/1988 | See Source »

...addict a needle to shoot drugs is facilitating a crime." New York Archbishop John Cardinal O'Connor, a member of the presidential AIDS commission, blasts the proposal as an "act born in desperation that drags down the standards of all society." Moreover, he strongly questions "whether it will accomplish its purpose," inasmuch as the free needles will probably be shared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: The Lesser of Two Evils | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

...weren't women. They were large blustery men with red faces or they were tall charismatic men with white teeth and big smiles--but they were never women. After I realized this I began to doubt whether I wanted to be a politician and, more importantly, whether I could accomplish what I set out to do. I was scared that my gender could effect my success...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: A Woman's Woman | 2/9/1988 | See Source »

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