Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what? At least for now, Saddam's continued presence in Baghdad is only an annoyance, not a menace (except to his unfortunate subjects). Despite the criticisms from Bush's political opponents, the U.S. and its allies did accomplish their principal goals in the gulf war: they decisively punished an act of naked and unprovoked aggression, kept Saddam's hands off vital oil supplies, wrecked his military machine enough to keep him from threatening his neighbors again anytime soon, and decisively set back if not eliminated his attempts to develop nuclear weapons...
...That meant seeing things through in Vietnam...I made this promise not out of blind loyalty but because I was convinced that the broad lines of his policy, in Southeast Asia and elsewhere, had been right. They were consistent with goals the United States had been trying to accomplish in the world since 1945" (my italics). Thus began a policy on Vietnam that Johnson called "steady on course...
...process of synthesizing antibiotics, enzymes within the bacteria act as the catalyst. The smaller molecules can accomplish the same task as the bulkier enzymes...
...chiefs of state and foreign ministers. It has become the common frame of reference for the world's power elite. Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev, George Bush and Saddam Hussein -- the headline sparring partners of the year just past -- are all alert watchers. What a computer message can accomplish within an office, CNN achieves around the clock, around the globe: it gives everyone the same information, the same basis for discussion, at the same moment. That change in communication has in turn affected journalism, intelligence gathering, economics, diplomacy and even, in the minds of some scholars, the very concept...
...challenge is to turn this team around and accomplish the things it is certainly capable of doing, namely winning. If it cannot, it will indeed be difficult for the faithful to keep the faith...