Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...since the post was created approximately one year ago, critics have charged that the associate dean's one-year term makes it virtually impossible for him or her to accomplish anything...
Furthermore, the staff emphasizes the controversial aspects of Silber's presidency at Boston University instead of the indisputably postive things he accomplished there. We do not approve of the some of the bareknuckles tactics which Silber used to accomplish his goals, nor are we enthusiastic about the restrictions he placed on student life at the university. But his methods and personality notwithstanding, Silber did transform a faltering "safety school" into a thriving world-class university. If our colleagues on the staff can't appreciate this recovery, they need only talk to the upbeat students at B.U. or browse through...
Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young wanted to accomplish in Georgia what L. Douglas Wilder had in Virginia last year: become his state's first black Governor. But Young's dream went a-glimmering last week as lieutenant governor Zell Miller drubbed him in a runoff for the Democratic nomination, winning 62% of the vote...
...comes to the world. But their realism may help them keep shuffling along with their good intentions, no matter what life throws at them. That resignation leaves them no illusions to shatter, no false expectations to deflate. In the long run, even with their fits and starts, they may accomplish more of their goals than past generations did. "No one is going to say we are anything but slow and steady, but how else are we going to go?" asks Ann Evangelista, 21, of West Chester, Pa. "I could walk this slow and steady way, and maybe...
Harvard Greek mythology guru Gregory Nagy, in his popular course on Homeric poetry, describes "the revenant"--the hero who returns from beyond the grave to accomplish his life-defining mission. Like Odysseus, the Ghostdad returns from the underworld to a greater understanding of the universe and, more importantly, to a more balanced existence...