Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Losing sucks," Busconi said with characteristic candor. "But we've got to be happy with what we've accomplished. Now one expected us to accomplish half of what we've accomplished and a lot of freshmen have grown this year...
...view the party must shed its ultraliberal, antibusiness, soft-on-defense image if it is ever to win back the voters who have been defecting and, in particular, if it is to enter future presidential elections without almost automatically forfeiting the electoral votes of Southern and Western states. To accomplish that, say council promoters, requires an organized group arguing within the party for positions favoring economic growth, a strong defense and a tough stance against crime...
...commitments to engage in "intensive dialogue" with companies that do business in South Africa, and to "vote...shares and to seek other means of persuasion to induce companies...to implement...anti-apartheid principles." These comprehensive plans would seem to lend credibility to the Corporation's argument that it can accomplish more to bring about change in South Africa by retaining its shares than it can by pulling out altogether...
...Auburn club was the last before Ohio accomplish the double feat. The Tigers hit 77.2 percent from the line and 48.8 percent from the floor...
Pinchot argues that entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs have similar motivations. Both are pushed primarily by the desire to accomplish something. Says he: "What drives the entrepreneur is a deep, personal need for achievement." This, rather than any large financial gain, is the key. Pinchot says that companies should try to tap employees' interest by giving them the freedom and the financial backing to chase their ideas. If they succeed, they may get a bonus or a promotion. But for intrapreneurs, the real payoff is the feeling of success--"I did it, and it worked...