Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Administration officials say they are encouraging disarmament, but not imposing it. But if a political decision were made to collect all the weapons, it would be fairly easy to accomplish. The Somali clans do not have trained soldiers, like the Serb militias in Bosnia. Most of those toting guns here are youths, some not so big as the rifles they carry. They are not fighting for any cause, not for communism or Islam, not for freedom or democracy. They appear mainly interested in spoils. When the Marines landed, they fled, and it is unlikely that they would fight...
...will watch the economic indicators through mid- January before deciding whether new deficit spending is needed. In any case, he insists, he will seek long-term deficit reduction as well as new public investments in education, job training and public works. But new spending will be easier to accomplish if it is simply borrowed from future generations, Reagan-Bush style, rather than painfully extracted from existing programs...
...regret and human sympathy were quickly outdistanced by more practical doubts. Exactly what did the separation announcement, released by the palace, accomplish? "Their Royal Highnesses," it intoned, "would like to stress first and foremost that this decision is amicable . . . There have been no third parties involved, on either side." Well, fine, but the pair have scarcely been able to look at each other, never mind speak, in public, and each has been caught in indiscreet phonefests with a "confidant...
...NOTEBOOK: Flandermeyer is just 14 points shy of the 1,000 point milestone, a mark teammate maher passed earlier this season against Lehigh. Flandermeyer will be only the seventh player to accomplish this feat...Maher is leading the Ivy League in scoring, averaging 18.0 points per contest. She also leads the league in three-point percentage, hitting 52.2 percent of her bombs...Butler is the Ancient Eight's leading rebounder, grabbing WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: IVY LEAGUE STANDINGS...
...rather to feel anger and disgust. This is not tragedy. The word tragedy would give this business too much moral elevation. What has happened in Bosnia is just squalor and barbarism -- the filthy work of liars and cynics manipulating tribal prejudices, using atrocity propaganda and old blood feuds to accomplish the unclean political result of "ethnic cleansing." The displacement of a million innocent civilians, turned into refugees, is not a consequence of the war, but precisely the purpose of the war. It has worked...