Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a recess is called and McVeigh is escorted away, his smile vanishes as soon as he re-enters the detention cell. His face immediately sets itself into a neutral expression. If he is playacting, you have to wonder what he thinks that will accomplish. Surely, the circumstances of the case call for utmost gravity on the part of everyone involved. Perhaps McVeigh's behavior is part of his ongoing effort to show that he is just a regular guy, not a narrow-eyed fanatic. If so, he is defeating his own purpose: a regular guy would never...
...Sister Carol hopes that summit participants discover there's a limit to what volunteerism can accomplish. The gathering is little more than a feel-good festival, she says, if it doesn't lead to a strategy for better schools and jobs. Steady work is scarce in the industrial ruins, enrollment at six area schools shows a 95% poverty rate, and two-thirds of the students don't graduate. Villanova's Dore grew up in suburban Philadelphia watching her peers waste opportunities. Here, she says, in a neighborhood 78% Latino and 11% black, kids are hungry for any advantage...
...equipment at the Nanchang Aircraft Company, a military contractor. In the end, economic considerations overrode national security ones, Admiral Bill Center told The New York Times, which first published the report: "All of us concluded that if McDonnell Douglas didn't sell it, others would, and we wouldn't accomplish anything by saying...
...never been any African-American owners or team presidents. What is most distressing of all is the notion, as expressed by then Dodger vice-president Al Campanis 10 years ago, that blacks lacked "the necessities" to become managers or front-office workers. Regardless of what African-Americans (and Latinos) accomplish, they are still seen as men in baseball uniforms, and not in business suits...
Getting people into an environmentally conscious mind-set is exactly next week's Earth Week activities hope to accomplish...