Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign in New Hampshire and Iowa, traveling quietly, speaking at high schools and civic associations hoping to build momentum. And like George McGovern and Jesse Jackson, he notes that running for president is a way to say things people ought to hear. "That's a minimum of what you accomplish. There's no time you can discuss things like during a presidential campaign," he says...
...over 25 days in May, during which the Soviets send 250,000 soldiers toward the Persian Gulf. The players decide, quickly and early on, to dispatch 25,000 U.S. troops to bolster the pro-American faction in Iran. An informal U.S.-Soviet contact is opened, yet seems to accomplish nothing. As Soviet troops keep moving south, and U.S. troops are endangered, Muskie's aides appear anxious to discuss the nuclear option, but the President cuts off all such talk...
...Damascus, President Assad would be forced to negotiate. And in fact, some Mid-east observer consider the Hayley's reduce of Syrien efforts against Arafat crucial in bringing about the partial--though short lived-cease fire between PLO factions in short, what the U.S. can only hope to accomplish with guns and blooded--get the Syrians out of Lebonon--the Soviet can do through coercion...
...period during which the man in the Oval Office must get his bearings and put his Administration in place for the work he hopes to accomplish. That would not have given Kennedy-elected in a squeaker, with no clear mandate and no working majority in Congress-much time to prove himself...
Summers: I think there will be some waning of the debate. The novelty of industrial policy, as a strategy, has led some people, particularly those who aren't experts, into a vastly inflated sense of what it can hope to accomplish...