Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...live in the greatest country on earth. If the people believe in our country and our fellow citizens, we can accomplish almost any worthy goal....I'm an unabashed patriot, and I'm proud of it," he writes...
...mere solitude would never hold the eclectic man from Queens. His need to accomplish and excel runs too deep. For 15 years he has scorned vacations. Instead, hard work is more renewing. Cuomo dominates those around him. An excessive talker, he routinely holds listeners captive as he slips into changing courtroom roles, playing innocent here, bullying there, as a technique for gathering information and testing the motives of others. It is a bruising process that tends to make flunkies out of the less sturdy around him. One top aide has packed on 50 lbs. from nervous overeating. But the extra...
...largely ceremonial job of secretary of state. In 1977 Carey pushed Cuomo to run for mayor of New York City. Cuomo, overcompensating for his preceptorial manner, turned almost surly. In the campaign debates, he made Congressman Ed Koch appear to be the victim, not an easy thing to accomplish. "I was too prosecutorial," he says. Cuomo lost the nomination, then ran on the Liberal Party line in the general election and lost again...
...world's leading maker of oceanographic equipment, suggests that Massachusetts has an equation for success. "There's a mother lode of talent in this state," says Raymond. "Combine that with the liberal ethic and you have a society that stimulates creativity." That is precisely what Governor Dukakis wants to accomplish: to make the state work "so that the extraordinary becomes a permanent fixture." For a state that has traditionally made the extraordinary ordinary, that should not be so hard a task. -- By Lance Morrow. Reported by David S. Jackson/Houston...
...living below the poverty level and attending schools that typically cannot attract top teachers. "America must now provide to the many the same quality of education presently reserved for the fortunate few," says the report, written principally by Carnegie's executive director Marc Tucker. "Only the teachers can finally accomplish (that) agenda . . . The cost of not doing so will be a steady erosion of the American standard of living...