Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...excel in a demanding job, be a successful single mother and support her aging parent, yet who is abjectly clueless about defending herself from exploitative males--the romantically stunted career-girl stereotype that Hollywood has already perfected for white women. "One of the things I was hoping to accomplish was to point out that we as women often choose men who aren't necessarily healthy for us," says McMillan. "The bottom line is that people will do stupid things when they want to feel loved." The lesson is lost on some viewers. "The movie didn't do black women...
...there were many lawmakers who thought Gingrich was too flighty and volatile to be treated like a grownup. Paul Weyrich still sounds exasperated when he recalls Gingrich's early days: "The man had no organization; he was helter-skelter. Undisciplined. Unfocused, interesting, but not destined to accomplish much." Even as he was learning to be statesmanlike, to buckle down and count votes and hold his tongue when the circumstances required, he was working hard to recruit and train the G.O.P. troops who would eventually become his Republican Guard...
...mission or goal to be achieved by American troops in Bosnia, just as there was no mission or goal in Vietnam. The religious hatreds and the war in Bosnia have been ongoing for hundreds of years. Putting American kids in the path of certain death and injury will not accomplish a thing. The most American troops could accomplish would be to halt the genocide to some degree until our troops leave, and they will leave as soon as the public sees them dying on the nightly television news. Then the killing and the hatred will resume again, and American kids...
...agenda from the first three years was very, very time-dependent, and we had a great number of things to accomplish," Rudenstine says...
...command headquarters, communications networks, antiaircraft artillery and radars. Once in place, the I-FOR troops, unlike the hapless U.N. peacekeepers, will go where they please and have "the unimpeded right to observe, monitor and inspect'' whatever they like. All sides, moreover, are committed to working out military parity. To accomplish this, the U.S. will equip and train the weaker Bosnian army while the Serbs, in turn, will be required to trim back their forces...