Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Playing ball in Harlem was tough. You had to be tough in order to accomplish anything, or else you'd get eaten up," Campbell says...
This weekend, it just hopes to accomplish the achievable...
...Mogadishu and journeyed the next day to Baidoa, in the heart of the famine zone. Then, without so much as returning to Washington to change his shirt, he winged north 3,700 miles to snowy Moscow. There, he and Boris Yeltsin were to sign a treaty that should accomplish the truly radical cut in long-range nuclear weapons that had eluded so many previous leaders in the White House and the Kremlin. Bush called it "the most historic arms-control agreement ever made": both sides are to retire about two-thirds of their remaining long-range warheads, the U.S. / retaining...
...Washington lawyer who served with Berger on the board of a human-rights group, calls "an unerring instinct for the important" -- the ability to figure out which issues are peripheral before that becomes obvious to others, and to avoid spending any more time in a meeting than needed to accomplish his purpose. Colleagues praise him for other lawyerly virtues as well: sound judgment, discretion, the ability to absorb technical minutiae fast without losing sight of the big picture, a willingness, says a friend, "to work his ass off." Berger is kind to secretaries, seldom crabby and uses a quizzical, ironic...
...done with the least amount of damage," as a friend puts it. Lake calls this trait "a taste for communal enterprise." During the campaign, that attention to bridge building brought many lapsed Democratic foreign policy heavies like Jeane Kirkpatrick and Paul Nitze back into the fold and helped accomplish the goal, as Berger put it, of "keeping foreign policy off the front pages," so Clinton could hammer away on domestic issues...