Word: accomplishing
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...through the many, many, many such exchanges, and navigates the audience through a brisk but shattering evening of theater. Most impressive, perhaps, is their success in giving some degree of movement and unity to what could be just an endless succession of one-liners. For all the characters actually accomplish, Lion could plausibly begin or end at any scene change, as Henry, Eleanor and company manipulate and betray one another, struggle and stalemate for the upper hand...
...superiority of Soviet land based missile forces in Europe. But taking into account all the missiles in the European theater pointed at the Soviets--including those of France and Britain, as well as American submarine-based weapons--the "6-1"edge vanishes. In fact, the freeze would actually accomplish a key Administration goal in Europe: the prevention of Soviet deployment of any new SS-20 missiles to modernize Russian nuclear forces. And in any case, freeze opponents who point only to the European situation are forgetting that the freeze applies to all nuclear weapons everywhere,. This means that...
...similarities between Viet Nam and El Salvador far outweigh the differences. The enormous infusion of money; the support given to a corrupt government that, like its opposition, uses atrocities to accomplish its objectives; American advisers attempting to train a ramshackle, ragtag army; and Washington debates about whether or not American ground troops will be needed to win. It's all much too familiar and, more to the point, irritating to the deep national wounds that have barely stopped oozing...
...Strom Thurmond (R-S-C.) and, amazingly, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.). A spokesman for the liberal Democratic leader said this week that descriptions of the bill by groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union had been exaggerated and that the Senator believes it would accomplish the crucial goal of more efficient federal crime statutes. He did not explain that Kennedy had sponsored earlier incarnations of S. 1630 as a good-will gesture to conservatives when he was jockeying for power as Judiciary Committee chairman in the late 1970s, or that the Senator has maintained his support...
...FARTHER OUT ON THE LEFT they edged, the more frustrated, the more totally disappointed, the Vietnam generation eventually became. As Huntington quite correctly points out, the 60s activists didn't accomplish a hell of a lot--they couldn't end the war for years, and they didn't change any basic institutions of our government. Desegregation was the only victory (an achievement that may yet prove transient), and even the civil rights movement was unable to even get a grip on the thornier question of economic rights for minorities. Indeed, the most discouraging portion of The Promise of Disharmony deals...