Word: fruition
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...research has not come to full fruition, but I anticipate that I may be able to wrap it up tonight. Accordingly, I will not be submitting the assigned paper tomorrow but I will, of course, do so once I have completed my outside exercise...
...from those of his predecessors. Last spring he proclaimed himself free of SALT II strictures because he believed the arms-limitation process to be little more than a codification of the arms race. But he sees his own proposals, including the INF agreement now well on its way to fruition, as blueprints for actual weapons reductions...
Except that once in a great while the process does work that way. Thus it was with tax reform, a political miracle that was brought to the verge of fruition by an amazingly varied group of conservatives and liberals, Republicans and Democrats. Some, like New Jersey Democratic Senator Bill Bradley and New York Republican Congressman Jack Kemp, were longtime crusaders. Others, like Ronald Reagan, who supported a 1981 tax bill that was laden with special breaks, were late converts. But eventually, though the public at times seemed skeptical, most politicians came either to favor the idea or to fear...
Prince crashes a socialite party and meets a rich, young heiress (Kristin Scott-Thomas) whom he seduces and falls in love with. However, the heiress' father (Steven Berkoff) is determined to make sure their romance never achieves, shall we say, fruition...
Carrington's associates and followers all point to his successful conclusion of his negotiating effort to create a democratic Zimbabwe as his greatest accomplishment. The peer's effort came to fruition in late 1979, only after he convinced Thatcher to reverse her public position that the rebellion led by Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo was mere terrorism. The settlement--which even Carrington and many members of his negotiating team had believed was impossible, they later said--perhaps could have been achieved only by someone with the unflagging pragmatism and clearheadedness of Carrington, who has demonstrated time and again the willingness...