Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Admitedly, these tactics should be held in reserve as a last resort. But contrast them with the "last resort" Council Chair Kenneth E. Lee '89 offered you--a boycott of this spring's housing lottery. This wouldn't accomplish a damn thing, except leave a lot of freshmen looking for affiliated housing in the fall. You should not run from the housing lottery--if you consider yourself a true activist imbued with a revolutionary "student consciousness," you should seize control...
While I believe in contributing to one's society for the benefits one has received, I do not think the Nunn plan will accomplish this goal. In order to finance this program, the government would have to cut all existing federal aid programs such as the Pell Grant, College Work Study and the NDSL, GSL and the SEOG loan and grant programs...
...clandestine cottage industry has grown up to convert these guns into full ! automatics, which can fire long bursts with a single pull of the trigger (a semi-automatic, despite its rapid-fire capability, requires a separate squeeze of the trigger for each round). A skilled gunsmith can accomplish the conversion for almost all semiautomatics, and there is a considerable demand for that service. Since 1934 federal law has made full automatics, such as machine guns, difficult to buy for anyone except police, the military and licensed collectors. A private purchaser has to obtain both federal and state licenses and undergo...
...characters, Henry Kissinger, John Mitchell and the rest. The nation soon would be off on a different road, or so one imagined. It would be another four years before the U.S. withdrew from Viet Nam, and another seven years before the North Vietnamese armies would sweep south and accomplish the result that American power had sought so long to prevent. During 1968, another 16,000 Americans died in the war. By the time the polished black granite of the Viet Nam Memorial was installed in Washington in 1982 -- an act of national reconciliation that took years -- more than...
Until the new dean is named, long-range planning is mostly on hold, although Allison has said that a full-scale curriculum review is one thing he wants to accomplish before leaving his post in June...