Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tactics of censorship, violent retaliation and rhetorical hatred will not accomplish those ends, nor will they succeed in furthering the goals espoused by Take Back the Night. Rather, Dines-Levi and others risk alienating those women who have fought to liberate their own sexualities as a means of fighting that very same oppression...
Most agree that Putnam's outsider status will not affect his ability to accomplish these goals. Bok and colleagues say that Putnam's energy and his willingness to listen to faculty and student concerns will quickly help him become acquainted with the school's inner workings...
...solution is automation. "It will improve accuracy," says Stanford's Paul Berg. "It will remove boredom; it will accomplish what we want in the end." The drive for automation has already begun; a machine designed by Caltech biologist Leroy Hood can now sequence 16,000 base pairs a day. But Hood, a member of the Genome Advisory Committee, is hardly satisfied. "Before we can seriously take on the genome initiative," he says, "we will want to do 100,000 to a million a day." The cost, he hopes, will eventually drop to a penny per base pair...
...residents close the elevator door in his face when he tried to board. Evidently they took the well-dressed 38-year-old Grayson, one of the highest- ranking officials in New York, for a mugger. "It makes me sizzle," he says, "because it means that no matter what I accomplish as an individual, I will always be judged by what people see first, my color...
Under different circumstances, Bush's Asian trip might have been the start of a more vigorous diplomacy. As it was, the President appeared likely to accomplish no more than he did at the innumerable foreign funerals he attended as Vice President. During only two days in Japan, Bush scheduled 19 meetings with Kings, Presidents and Prime Ministers of countries ranging from France to Saudi Arabia to Singapore. But since he was unprepared to get into matters of substance, many of the meetings lasted only 15 to 25 minutes, including opening pleasantries and time for translation. In a meeting with Japanese...