Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...winds down, the team members begin discussing their flights home--Wang will return to Boston, Tom to Chicago, Mike and Conrad to Washington, D.C. They are relieved to end the week but a little frantic about what they have yet to accomplish. Tom and Scott return from their meeting with the executives, flush with that I-just-gave-a-damn-good-presentation glow...
...evening, in what he described as "an emotional moment," Seton told the council he felt he could accomplish more for students on campus by working with University Hall than against...
...needs to distance itself from liability in this case, and the best way to accomplish that is to scapegoat Charles Yoo as the person responsible," he said...
...also a decorated Vietnam War hero, who watched the Navy pilot under siege by members of his own party and some veterans' groups. "I saw him suffer a lot of outrageous, outlandish accusations about his character and patriotism," says Democrat Kerry, "and I saw him weather it steadfastly to accomplish his goal. It was a strong display of self-control and confidence." Kerry and others who returned to visit McCain's prison cell with him in 1993 say the former captain has a remarkable inner peace about the episode. "He was tempered by that time," says a Senator of McCain...
...players didn't realize by the results how much they had accomplished from day one in preseason to where they were in the standings," Kerr said. "The coaching staff knew we were doing the right things in practice and knew we were trying to get across the right ideas. They were picking them up, maybe not as quickly as we would have liked, but we knew that they were succeeding in what we were trying to accomplish...