Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This represents a lot of very exciting work for Harvard and Cambridge," said John Shattuck, committee member and Harvard vice-president for government, community, and public affairs. "Even from a sober point of view and admitting that we didn't accomplish all that we wanted to accomplish, we did a great deal...
...quote from Max Weber or Simone de Beauvoire to an idea of our own with the prayer that we will magically assume his or her authority. It often ends up as our experts against somebody else's--Hume vs. Locke, Marx vs. Hegel. The only thing we accomplish is making our TF's pull all-nighters to finish grading...
...accomplish less and less. Doctors may waste more than $100 billion a year on overzealous testing and unnecessary surgery, among other things. Insurance companies say patients, hospitals, doctors and thieves are cheating them out of $60 billion or more. Meanwhile millions of Americans are starving for care in the midst of plenty. Doctors have migrated away from rural areas across America, leaving families in dread fear of the tractor accident, the heart attack, the sudden illness. Another problem: the health-care system devotes so much of its resources to last-minute miracles that it neglects the more mundane realm...
...WIDENER NO-TELL MOTEL: Sex in the Widener stacks is the great Harvard achievement. But how many of us ever actually accomplish this noble ambition? We are too scared of being Ad Boarded, too scared of running into other couples, too scared of forgetting birth control and being locked in for the night with little...
...outrider: whatever happens now in California, or to California, will be happening to America before long, and to the entire world a little while after that. If you want to know whether America still works, then ask whether California still works. Does the reckless American hospitality to immigrants still accomplish its transformations and synergies? Can America still absorb so many disparate values and traditions and form them into a successful society? Or will the nation vanish into an incoherent future? Consult California...