Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...admittedly partisan Democrat, Reese says Bush has given no indication of what he hopes to accomplish in the White House: "We have no idea what Mr. Bush is going to do as president. All we know is that he is for people saying the Pledge of Allegiance, preventing Black men from raping white women and against the ACLU. I don't know anything else about him," he says...
...North. Instead, consider heading south for Everybody's All- American, directed by Taylor Hackford and written by Tom Rickman from Frank Deford's novel. At least you will discover that Louisianans have more fun being miserable, and accomplish it in suaver style, than Minnesotans do. This is the movie that asks, Is there life after the Sugar Bowl? Jan. 1, 1957: that's when Gavin Grey (Dennis Quaid) soldered his legend to his destiny by scoring his team's winning touchdown...
...representative of the FOI said it is unclear what they hope to accomplish or what their next step will...
Healy says that she likes skating because when she skates she accomplishes things in motion that she can only accomplish while standing still in dance...
Take the Republican assault on Governor Dukakis over the Pledge of Allegiance. This bare-knuckled attack aimed to accomplish two things. One was to locate and identify the Governor for a national audience. The Republicans' intentions, of course, were malign, but they found their opening in Dukakis' relative obscurity outside his home state. The Republicans hoped that a trivial action, which had passed almost unnoticed in the political culture of Massachusetts, would have a different resonance when replayed in the political culture of the country as a whole. The second purpose of the pledge attack was to restate...