Word: accomplishments
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...need to address public schools' "most serious problems." Peterson tells us that the "discipline of the marketplace" will accomplish this, or at the very least, get things moving towards this end. But how will this happen? Why should we believe that the invisible hand is good at providing quality in education? Like schoolchildren, we are told to follow a simple analogy: through competition, the marketplace brings out excellence in consumer goods, therefore competition will do the same for schools...
Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State of the world's only superpower, visits the Middle East and manages to accomplish nothing for the peace process. Irving Moskowitz goes to the region after her, and the next thing you know, the process is threatened anew with riot and rupture. Of course, it's easier to hurt than help the onerous business of negotiating peace, but that's what makes Irving Moskowitz arguably the most pivotal player in the Middle East at the moment...
...promise you: Your participation matters. A diverse council will have all the right tools to build-for the first time-a truly representative student government body. And it will accomplish more than we ever dreamed was possible...
...would liken it to Harvard football playing against Nebraska," said Coach Don Benson '88. "They were strong and physical. It was a game where we had to pick our victories and triumphs not in terms of score, but by what we tried to accomplish...
...hurry to visit the region. In 20 often fruitless trips, Albright's predecessor, Warren Christopher, became a model of what she saw as American diplomatic impotence. Unsure of herself in the byzantine world of Middle Eastern politics, she said she would travel there only if she could accomplish something substantial...