Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Imagine my surprise, then, to read that I said, "We can at least be safe at home, without allies." I appreciate that "with our allies" in a Hungarian accent may sound like "without allies," or that a typographical error could accomplish this reversal. Your kind correction will keep the record straight. Edward Teller Stanford, Calif...
...area remains seriously underrepresented on our faculty. To develop our curriculum effectively, to provide more advanced courses and courses in major areas of Women's Studies not currently taught here, we need more faculty members for whom the study of women constitutes a major research and teaching interest. To accomplish this, departments need to give a high priority to recruitment of both senior and junior faculty who can contribute to Women's Studies. A university that hopes to preserve its proud tradition of scholarly excellence and leadership must cultivate this vital field of study...
...principal accomplishment of SALT II was that it slowed that juggernaut down. At the same time, the treaty left the U.S. free to narrow the gap in land-based warheads. When the Joint Chiefs of Staff gave their endorsement to ratification of the SALT II treaty in 1979, they called it a "modest but useful step." Critics on both the left and the right were not willing to go even that far. They stressed what the treaty did not accomplish: it failed to stop, much less reverse, the arms race; it failed to close the "window of vulnerability" by eliminating...
...newsmen last week. What counts, the officials maintained, is not the intentions of the contras but those of the U.S. And the contras' hope of overthrowing the Sandinista government is a delusion of grandeur; they lack the numbers, training and equipment to do it. All they can accomplish is to harass the Nicaraguan government, and all the U.S. hopes to do by aiding them is to demonstrate to that government that it cannot aid insurrection in El Salvador without suffering reprisals at home...
...film markets by a cooperative of Oxonians in the same age bracket, 20 to 27, as the students they have conspired to place on the screen. The chief difference between creators and creations is that the former apparently have a more vaulting sense of what young people can accomplish if they devote their nerve, energy and talents to doing something of more general interest than merely finding themselves or turning up someone suitable to sleep with...