Word: accomplishing
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Race is indeed an area in which just talking can accomplish something. Civil rights leaders say Clinton's greatest achievement on race was the 1995 affirmative-action speech in which he vowed to "mend it, not end it," articulating a deft consensus where it seemed none was possible. But when toughness is called for, the President has more often than not disappointed them. "On this issue he does not come into the bully pulpit with much moral authority," complains black author and activist Roger Wilkins...
...would do it again because it was right, but I don't think it was consciousness-raising. Since it didn't accomplish its end, the only other benefit that might have come would be for the president to have thought more about these issues," Mansbridge said. "I'm not sure that happened in this case.... [The letter] was a failure. I was quite depressed by the result...
...ready to conclude that simply raising the levels of scores will accomplish anything meaningful," she said. "We need creative discussion, not requirements. I'm not simply a proponent of just hiking the level of scores...
...have such an active student body, we would be in a situation without reading period for them to cram," says outgoing Assoc. Dean of Freshman Burris Young '55, recalling how a former roommate used reading period to accomplish work shelved during his football season...
...game must have been a wakeup call because what Harvard then proceeded to accomplish can only be described as remarkable. The Crimson romped through its final 11 games with an average margin of victory of 24 points...