Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mean we are about to witness a long string of Administration defeats in Congress? No. First, in terms of sheer bulk, there is not much that President Reagan wants from Congress except to protect the gains achieved largely in the first year, which is a much easier task to accomplish than policy initiation. He has the smallest domestic legislative agenda of any President in the post-war era, and whatever rhetoric he has committed to social issues like prayer in the schools and the prohibition of abortions, they have never been serious interests of the Administration. Second, the advent...
Russell suggested building halfway homes on nearby lots. With the nearly half-million dollars needed to buy and renovate the house on Alberdeen, "they could build two or three places and accomplish the same thing," she said...
...accomplish that, Gorbachev knows, he must reduce the oversize portion of the annual gross national product carved out by the military -- as much as 14%, by some estimates -- and devote more money to domestic economic growth. If he genuinely wants to modernize Soviet society and produce goods that can compete with Western products in world markets, he will have to divert more young men from military service to computer and technical training...
...restoration took five years and $113 million to accomplish, but Washingtonians who last week strolled through the Victorian opulence of the reopened Willard Hotel a block from the White House seemed to find it all worthwhile. Shuttered for 18 years, the historic structure, which evolved from four row houses built in 1816, had been gutted and painstakingly renovated by Developer Oliver Carr. At a black-tie reception, descendants of Founder Henry Willard gathered for pictures under the massive chandeliers in the ornate Crystal Room...
...courses next year are having to rethink their schedules. Junior and senior faculty who backed the nomination of a respected scholar are having to rearrange their departments. As it stands, Professor Watson spoke for many faculty when he said, "I just don't know what one is supposed to accomplish." Neither do the students...