Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...care facilities have suffered due to sanctions, and the risk of a child under five dying has risen nearly 500 percent in recent times. About 160 children die each day due to food shortages. Bombing such a beleaguered people seems simply inhumane, especially if alternative means are available to accomplish what the U.S. seeks. Unnecessary force is cruel and unconscionable when other policy options are available...
...protests would die down, with the help of a stern Bernard Shaw and some menacing security guards. But the reasoned questions, too, reflected something that will surely trouble Clinton in the coming days: This time around, America is getting gun-shy. Many wondered whether a military strike would accomplish any final objective; others considered the U.S.' record on U.N. resolutions to be spotty at best. A veteran wanted to be assured that the U.S. would "not be half-assed" this time and finish the job, whatever it took. And from Cohen, Albright and Berger, the answers were not always convincing...
...structures on Sumner Road. We understand and share what we take to be the community's central concerns: to conserve and improve the green space behind Gund Hall and to build in keeping with the scale of the site, respecting its proximity to a residential neighborhood. One way to accomplish this is to explore the use of below-grade space. Another will be to improve and make effective use of space possibilities offered by Coolidge Hall...
...problem is that it's hard at Harvard for ajunior faculty to accomplish enough so that theycan measure up in an international evaluation inthe blind letter in the number of years they'rehere," Losick says...
...Kwan does know how good she has become, and she is already looking beyond the Olympics. "I want to keep going," she says. "I know I'm capable of a lot more in skating, and I want to accomplish more. I want to be a legend. I want people to remember me after 1,000 years." Every so often, however, the rigors of perfection and the sting of memory give her pause. Backstage, as she waited before her long program last month, Kwan turned to her coach and asked, "Do you think people know what it's like to compete...