Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stopping nuclear proliferation was the only justification for invading Kuwait that a majority of Americans accept. But even a decisive victory in Kuwait will not destroy Iraq's nuclear capability. Only an invasion of Iraq itself--costing hundreds of thousands of additional casualties and possibly lasting years--could possibly accomplish that...
...that the reasons or goals provided by Harvard for giving preferences to children of alumni and recruited athletes are legitimate institutional goals, and not a pretext for discrimination against Asian Americans. Additionally, Harvard has asserted, and OCR accepts, that there are no alternatives to these preferences that could effectively accomplish the same legitimate goals...
...favorable ruling provided only momentary respite. Six of the women found themselves suspended from their jobs as professors at King Saud University in Riyadh after organized bands of students staged angry protests. "Not one of my students understood what I was trying to accomplish," said a stunned victim. Leaflets passed out at mosques during Friday prayers accused the women of undermining Saudi morality and, worst of all, showing signs of "American secularism." The women's names, phone numbers and addresses were printed and distributed. Menacing telephone calls followed. Says a friend of one of the women: "They are afraid that...
...Almost 10 years to the day after Ronald Reagan won the Presidency by promising to simultaneously cut taxes, expand defense spending, balance the federal budget and foster a new prosperity, Congress passed and sent to the White House a deficit-reduction plan that made no pretense of trying to accomplish those mutually exclusive goals. Capping more than five months of partisan wrangling, finger pointing and evasion, a new reality had forced itself upon a reluctant Washington: there is no way for the U.S. to get its fiscal house in order without demanding some sacrifice from nearly all citizens...
...even clear that the package is ambitious enough to accomplish one of its main goals: encouraging the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates. With the threat of recession more and more apparent, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan has indicated that he would ease credit once a plan was adopted. But financial experts expect no more than a quarter-point decline in interest rates, far less than the 1.5% drop the Administration has been hoping for. "This agreement will give the Fed a degree of maneuvering room, but not much," says Lyle Gramley, a former Fed governor...