Word: accomplishing
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Republicans know they need to demonstrate that they can accomplish something in Congress. This is why G.O.P. moderates have finally begun to crawl into the light. That much was evident last week in the challenge to the 10% across-the-board tax cut being promoted by Kasich. It's no surprise that Democrats are calling it a giveaway that betrays Social Security, but Kasich's plan is also being rejected by 11 moderates from his own party. Led by Connecticut's Nancy Johnson, they introduced a package of targeted tax cuts that would cost less than a third...
While recognizing how much China still needs to accomplish, Jiang, 72, is beginning to think about his legacy and about the leaders who will follow him. In the two decades since the socialist market economy was introduced, "we have embarked on a new era," he said. "Deng Xiaoping taught us that China needs to open its doors and establish economic links with the capitalist, developed world...
...Institutions like Harvard and Radcliffe cannot be measured by counting heads, but instead by how they successfully accomplish their missions," he wrote in an e-mail message...
With the changes in the Senate since its inception in 1787, the best way to accomplish that is through secret ballot...
...exactly such a deal, one that TIME senior entertainment reporter William Tynan says it's largely symbolic. "It acknowledges the significant role they play in the success of a movie and it garners a little more respect for them." But, he notes, it's unclear what the arrangement will accomplish in practical terms...