Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...difficult questions about the meaning and purpose of a liberal arts education that we too often leave unasked. The most crucial one to me is: Should making students into good citizens be one of a liberal arts college's primary goals? If the answer is yes, does Harvard College accomplish...
...Harvard want to be in the top 10 in the country and that is something I want to accomplish," he said...
...presiding over the economic boom, reforming welfare, cutting crime, dragging his party to the center and preparing his people for the new century--these were seen as Clinton's key legacy items. And what of his scandal sheet, which even then was voluminous? "Our hope is that we can accomplish enough in the second term to make those allegations pale," an adviser told TIME last year. "We'd like to reduce them to a legacy footnote...
...brushes off such praise. "I've broken both my hands in the last three years--I don't have a choice but to take extra hitting," he says. "A lot of people forget that." Still, he is too proud and aware of his abilities not to believe he can accomplish more. Last year, for instance, a mild slump in June and July cost him a chance at breaking Maris' record. "Most people don't know July was when my mother-in-law died," he says, sighing. "I have a three-year-old son, and I had to tell...
...around the summit represented a huge investment of time and attention: 11 days (counting travel time) out of the President's jammed schedule, participation of several Cabinet Secretaries, 225 staff members, hundreds of military and security personnel, all pursued by more than 400 journalists. So what did this multitude accomplish, and did it matter...