Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have a major goal to accomplish," Duncan says. "We should be able to start next year exactly where we left off this year," he adds, cognizant that all but Plutnicki and Co-Captain Monroe Trout will return...
...Shultz, who helped to negotiate the pact and views it as the only tangible accomplishment of his diplomacy in the Middle East, fought for it past the bitter end (see following story). Appearing before reporters hours after Reagan's breakfast retreat from the accord, the Secretary of State insisted with an unaccustomed quaver in his voice that it was a "good agreement" that should be preserved. Said Shultz: "Those who would dispense with it must bear the responsibility to find alternative formulas for Israeli withdrawal." Another State Department official made the same point, only more bluntly: "We were asked...
...degree that you can not find tenured Black faculty on several faculties on this campus. I think that students can make decisions, but those decisions are less well-informed, and they are less well-prepared when they leave here, to interact fruitfully with society, and indeed, to accomplish the things that you would have them make choices about...
...Administration took a dim view of Jackson's diplomatic gambit. A State Department official said it was bound to "muddy the waters" of U.S. policy. "If he's there milling around," the official said, "we can't accomplish anything. It sends conflicting messages to the Syrians. It's just a political stunt...
...sects want to spread their revolution, and apparently see the U.S. presence in the Middle East as an obstacle. Thus, killing U.S. Marines in Lebanon had an obvious goal: to drive them out by undermining support at home for their deployment abroad. What an Iranian terrorist would hope to accomplish by hitting a target in the U.S. is less clear; perhaps lashing out at "the Great Satan" would be motive enough...