Word: accomplishing
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TIME: What do you expect to accomplish at this week's G-7 summit in Naples...
...marks and buying of dollars by government central banks has twice failed to prop the dollar's price. The U.S. Federal Reserve might try raising interest rates again -- possibly this week -- to make American investments more attractive to foreigners. But most analysts doubt such a move would accomplish much unless it were synchronized with interest-rate cuts in Europe and Japan, which would not be easy to achieve. It could even be dangerous. The big worry about the dollar slide is that it will fan U.S. inflation by raising the price of imported goods and the American- made products that...
From the start, no one doubted that the prosecution could accomplish the simple goal of this hearing: to convince Judge Kathleen Kennedy-Powell that there is sufficient evidence to justify bringing Simpson to trial. Yet for most people, the real point was to learn precisely what evidence the prosecution had assembled. As it turned out, there was plenty. In the first two days of a hearing expected to continue at least through this week, it became apparent that lead prosecutor Marcia Clark and her team had gathered some devastating material, including enough scenes of blood to splice together a horror...
...what might it take to accomplish such a small miracle? This much: private tutoring to help her finish school, weekly lessons in sports like swimming and tennis, career counseling, a summer job -- and a guaranteed college education. All of that became available to Mims the year she turned 12 and heard about the Family Life and Sex Education Program of the Children's Aid Society, a social-service agency in New York City that aims to help inner- city teenage boys and girls to get a life before they go about conceiving one. The goal is to reduce teenage pregnancy...
...sounds bad because we did accomplish a lot, but this year wasn't really that special in terms of how we did," senior diver Marcia Vital says. "I think that each year you set out hoping to do better then you did the year before, and that can be hard when you are used to doing so well...