Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...risks of a protracted groundwar are unacceptable if an embargo could accomplish the same ends...
...never expected the administration to approve of our actions," said Sulee J. Stinson '92. "You don't protest by following their guidelines of what a good protest is. That's not going to accomplish anything...
...stopping nuclear proliferation was the only justification for invading Kuwait that a majority of Americans accept. But even a decisive victory in Kuwait will not destroy Iraq's nuclear capability. Only an invasion of Iraq itself--costing hundreds of thousands of additional casualties and possibly lasting years--could possibly accomplish that...
...that the reasons or goals provided by Harvard for giving preferences to children of alumni and recruited athletes are legitimate institutional goals, and not a pretext for discrimination against Asian Americans. Additionally, Harvard has asserted, and OCR accepts, that there are no alternatives to these preferences that could effectively accomplish the same legitimate goals...
...favorable ruling provided only momentary respite. Six of the women found themselves suspended from their jobs as professors at King Saud University in Riyadh after organized bands of students staged angry protests. "Not one of my students understood what I was trying to accomplish," said a stunned victim. Leaflets passed out at mosques during Friday prayers accused the women of undermining Saudi morality and, worst of all, showing signs of "American secularism." The women's names, phone numbers and addresses were printed and distributed. Menacing telephone calls followed. Says a friend of one of the women: "They are afraid that...