Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...question for me to find out if she could actually accomplish this," Kahn tells TIME. "I didn't know which Britney was going to show up because of how crazy the previous year had been." His worries were quickly erased. "There she was on set, watching the choreographer, bobbing her head to the music. Baby steps. She was getting her head back into it." He says Spears was noticeably "quieter" on set and worked on a tightly structured schedule. "This wasn't your typical 30-hour video workday," says Kahn. "They gave me eight hours a day for two days...
...photographers had arrayed in the Rose Garden, but the speech was still not ready. Reporters joked among themselves that the President needed another half hour to actually accomplish something before accepting the prize...
...Alfred Nobel stipulated for awarding it. "Either the person must have embraced the cause of peace and obtained results towards obtaining it," Valode recalls. "Or the person had to have demonstrated a commitment to peace through a lifetime of work for it. Obama hasn't had enough time to accomplish much in general, and hasn't even tried much with peace...
...issues and could lead some to believe that the initiative is aimed at protecting pharmaceutical companies' profits, not safeguarding public health. Franquet says it's important for public opinion to be mobilized against fake medicines, and he believes that given the sometimes tragic consequences, this should be easy to accomplish. "This is one of the rare areas where the public is on our side," he says...
...there is a real and strong middle option: to put ourselves and friendly Afghans in a position to manage future terrorist threats in that country without a major U.S. combat role. We can accomplish this by doing what we actually know how to do: arm, train, divide the enemy, contain and deter...