Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students at Harvard are already working hard (as we seem to be), then what point does harping on the GPA-ethnicity correlations serve? Instead of motivating students to work harder, the emphasis on group averages may merely reinforce their prejudices as to how much they and their classmates can accomplish at Harvard. I hope no one tries to suppress the Indy's statistics, but I also hope to see an end to their use in Crimson editorials which lower expectations in the name of raising them. Andrew J. Baker...
...goal is mass artistic awareness, and for Agitprop, art is everywhere. Living up to its funky monniker, a condensation of "agitation propaganda," Agitprop digs up facets of our culture and packages them for popular consumption. After only two years, this energetic arts group has organized many offbeat events to accomplish their goal...
...interview last month, Rudenstine said building a sizeable core of tenured women and minority faculty at the University--a goal the new initiative is presumably designed to accomplish--is important to improve the University's overall diversity...
...counseled against any involvement unless the U.S. used overwhelming force to win complete victory. But eventually they came to Clinton united. Neither wanted to commit American ground forces. Both were willing to exempt the Bosnian Muslims from the arms embargo. They agreed that air strikes would be unlikely to accomplish ambitious goals like rolling back Serbian territorial gains. Air Force Chief of Staff Merrill A. McPeak testified that his bombers could "put out of business" most Serbian artillery in Bosnia at "virtually no risk" to U.S. pilots. True enough, Aspin and Powell told Clinton, but that would accomplish little...
...battle for the President's metabolism was far from over. Instead the final week of Clinton's first 100 days resembled a special edition of an Oprah Winfrey show on "Presidents Who Try to Do Too Much and the People Who Love Them." Clinton's desire to accomplish five or six major legislative initiatives this year galvanized Democrats in Congress, Cabinet officers and White House aides into intervening with the policy-addicted President. A show of force, went the thinking, might budge Clinton into lightening his legislative load. Otherwise, Clinton's many cherished proposals might...