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Word: accomplishing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...confidence on the Persian Gulf battlefield. That confidence is seeping down into the national psyche and could help bring on an economic renewal. The war showed we don't have to play second fiddle to anybody, that we don't need the Germans and the Japanese to help us accomplish something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Victory's Dividend | 3/11/1991 | See Source »

...help accomplish this goal, organizers are offering an array of lectures by scholars from Harvard and other universities, including Princeton, Alyea said...

Author: By Doug Kaden, | Title: University Sponsors 10th Women's History Week | 3/5/1991 | See Source »

...step ahead of a coalition offensive. Hence the note of frustration in Bush's voice Friday as he all but begged the Iraqi armed forces to "take matters into their own hands," thus doing what not even the smartest bomb in the U.S. arsenal has been able to accomplish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America : Living with Saddam | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

Actually, that seems pretty reasonable, and that's one of the benefits of Harvard's diversity. Still, we don't need AWARE Week to accomplish...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Why I'm Skipping AWARE Week | 2/19/1991 | See Source »

Even with the purest motives, the media have been led astray by an irreconcilable variety of expert opinion. Stories based on Air Force sources have tended to be more upbeat about what air strikes alone could accomplish; stories based on Army sources have naturally tended to emphasize the importance of ground troops. From mid-August to mid-January, best-case scenarios abounded of a two-week air war, with U.S. dead no more than a few hundred. They were offered by White House, Pentagon and Congressional officials, who sought to buoy public support yet not make it so contingent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perceptions: Sorting Out the Mixed Signals | 2/18/1991 | See Source »

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