Word: accomplishing
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...still not on the streets. Wilson demanded an explanation, and was told that the Guard was short of ammunition. Asked the onetime Marine: "If you give each man one bullet, and a larger quantity to unit commanders, can you, No. 1, ensure the Guard's safety and, No. 2, accomplish your mission?" Guard commanders said they could. Wilson exploded, "Then divide up the f ---ing ammunition and get out there!" Before order was restored, other state officials even considered placing the city under martial law. Meanwhile, the talk in some law-enforcement circles is that if any major urban unrest...
...slickest handlers in the world cannot turn that kind of performance into a showstopper. There are limits to what handlers can accomplish in any case -- especially in a volatile three-way race. They can advise a candidate on strategy, feed him sound bites and even choose his ties. But in the end, the public is going to measure the candidate alone...
...when and where, according to legislator, depends on "whether there are useful things I can accomplish" and "whether my political course is favorable." And that, says Barrett, has yet to be determined...
Like the union leaders, she refers toRudenstine's inaugural address, which she saysoutlined the vision that the University iscommitted to accomplish...
...from more acid rain, it should encourage a nationwide cleanup of SO2, which the Clean Air Act wants to reduce by 10 million tons a year. "I'm not quite sure what people are complaining about," says Daniel Dudek, senior economist for the Environmental Defense Fund. "We want to accomplish our environmental goals with the least pain possible to the economy...