Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...election year, made a response that was uncharacteristically swift and characteristically disproportionate. Senator Bob Dole, first off the mark, proposed in a letter to President Clinton that the 1993 federal gasoline-tax increase of 4.3 cents per gal. be repealed, an action that Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested Congress could accomplish by Memorial Day. Pointedly noting that there had been no Republican support for that 1993 tax increase, Dole declared on the Senate floor, "We believe, with the skyrocketing prices of gasoline, jet fuel and other fuels, that the most certain way to give consumers relief is to repeal...
...know that I have aroused angry protests in most students. Granted, reading period, once we are facing it, does not seem long enough for all the work we have to accomplish. But most of that work is not studying for finals, but catch-up work for classes, in which we seem to be permanently behind. If reading period was only one week, it would be treated more seriously by all. We wouldn't have classes or papers during this time because it would be short and have a definitive purpose...
...goal was to be focused and confident by the time of Sprints, and this victory helped us accomplish that," Roylance said...
...Future of the Race. When two black intellectuals of the caliber and reputation of these two men publish a book and join the race debate, we listen. We expect one of two things: either a scholarly analysis of the debate or initiatives that propose policy changes. Does this book accomplish either...
Like her running mate, council President Robert M. Hyman '98-'97, Rawlins says the problems of divisiveness on the council are not as important as the work it is able to accomplish...