Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bandied about loosely; he seems to favor the word "prudent," explaining that because of the importance of investments earnings to the University's income, Harvard will always operate using prudent investment strategies. But Cabot is quick to recall the long-term picture: "We won't be able to accomplish for Harvard what we want to in the long term if we are conservative, I don't think we're stodgy investors. We're aggressive with some degree of prudence...
When Thomas J. Watson Jr. returned from Moscow in January after a year as ambassador to the Soviet Union, he wrote, "The leaders of the Soviet Union have both the will and the means to match any arms build-up we make. All we will accomplish is to throw good money after bad and to heighten the dangers of an accidental nuclear exchange. Like it or not, we have to acknowledge that the Soviet Union will not accept second-class status...
...must take issue with the letter by Leonard Artigliere [April 27], who refers to the '60s generation as "heroic hypocrites." Our commitment to our "cause" was demonstrated by the sacrifices and odium we accepted in order to accomplish...
City officials said that all of the owners had promised to donate the property to Cambridge, but that the eminent domain order was needed to make the procedure transferring the property easier to accomplish...
...defy those people who oppose handgun control to point to any other weapon that can inflict such lethal damage from a distance and, at the same time, can be so easily concealed. To suggest that a knife or a club could accomplish what a handgun can is nonsense...