Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lewis Armistead, assistant vice president for government and community affairs, said yesterday he is "not at all sure what the city is trying to accomplish...
...reply, one William E. O'Halloran of Newtonville took pen in hand and tongue in cheek. A mere $65,000 was "not nearly enough," O'Halloran opined in the Boston Globe's letters column. But there is another way that "will cost us nothing and accomplish much." Concluded O'Halloran: "There is no longer any viable reason we should call our river after an obscure and no-account English King. We should spend nothing and rename the Charles River the Curley River...
...optimistic realism of Not at the Palace helps Joe Masiell accomplish the near-impossible--he holds an audience's attention, alone, for some two and one-half hours. As a stage presence he has many gifts: a well-controlled and expressive singing voice, grace as a dancer, and the knack of an accomplished professional. He knows when to smile, when to chat with the audience, when to casually sling his jacket over his shoulder--and all this helps. But above all, he knows how to make you feel he actually believes his message; perhaps, and this would be a rarity...
State Rep. Robert B. Ambler said yesterday it was useless for the House to try to correct the bill because he had been assured the Senate Ways and Means Committee would do it. The committee has scheduled immediate meetings to look over the bill. The final bill would accomplish what the House had recommended, Ambler said...
...belief that the United States ought to do something to combat the indigenous forces of anarchy and superstition in foreign lands, and the result is a media urging the U.S. action to save the Shah somehow and a government fumbling to find some way of intervention that would accomplish this Herculean labor...