Word: accomplishing
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...honor student and a track and football star, but also a serious churchgoer who taught Sunday school and composed rap songs urging younger children to stay out of trouble. For Martin Luther King Day last year, his classmates and teachers chose him for keynote speaker. "I just talked about accomplishing your goals and not falling prey to society," Jones remembers. "I talked about the importance of having God in your life and the importance of getting your education. I told them to strive 110% for the goals that they want to accomplish, and don't become another victim...
...accomplish this, Aristide appealed to his supporters to surround the court building, which they did, not-so-subtly threatening to lynch the justices if they did not comply. Fearing for their lives, they...
...public seems confused and ambivalent. Among 600 people questioned in a TIME/CNN poll conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, 50% agreed with the proposition that "nothing the U.S. could accomplish in Haiti is worth the death of even one U.S. soldier," vs. 39% who disagreed. But when respondents were asked whether they approved of "sending U.S. troops to Haiti along with troops from other countries," the breakdown was almost the exact opposite: 51% in favor, 39% opposed. Unilateral intervention, on the other hand, drew only 17% support, with 75% against the idea...
...chiropractors, pharmacists, optometrists, therapists and other health providers who fear being left out. These groups have also found a sympathetic ear in Washington, where they argue that patients need "safety valves" in managed care that would permit them to choose their own providers. The most radical attempt to accomplish this is the any-willing-provider clause contained in the bill passed by Sam Gibbons' House Ways and Means Committee last month. This bill would force health plans to hire any and all doctors who want to treat patients covered by the programs, so long as they meet such basic qualifications...
They objected to the 300-ft. prohibitions and other clauses. But they allowed much of the smaller zone, which Rehnquist wrote "burdens no more speech than necessary to accomplish the governmental interest at stake." This drew a blistering dissent from Justice Antonin Scalia, who accused his colleagues of creating a standard of tolerance for injunctions against all kinds of speech -- to serve a fondness for abortion rights, which, he thundered, now "claims its latest, greatest and most surprising victim: the First Amendment...