Word: accomplishing
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...memoir, "especially when giving up money is involved." Attempting to change the Pentagon has defeated nearly every one of Gates' predecessors. If he prevails, he will have done more to transform the Pentagon than anything his immediate predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld, a self-proclaimed king of transformation, was able to accomplish. "I have no intention," Gates said late last year, "of being a caretaker Secretary...
...killing them--won't be easy. Gates is waging this war on two fronts. First, he knows he has to change a Defense Department culture that favors "99% exquisite solutions over a five- or six- or 10-year period" to a "75% solution in weeks or months." To help accomplish that, he is salting the military's senior ranks with officers who agree with him. He tapped General David Petraeus, whose counterinsurgency skills helped stabilize Iraq, to head an Army board asked to sift through colonels to identify those who merit promotion to one-star general. "An institution can always...
Gates, tempered by his decades of seeing what U.S. intelligence could--and could not--do, is leery of the buzzwords and silver bullets that ricochet around the Pentagon. "Be modest about what military force can accomplish and what technology can accomplish," he told an audience of midcareer military and intelligence officials last fall. War is "inevitably tragic, inefficient and uncertain," he said. So is taking on the Pentagon...
...around Washington. They include tax credits and cheaper mortgages for home buyers as well as leaning on lenders to rewrite mortgage terms for struggling borrowers. But maybe we should ask what, exactly, fixing the housing market means--and prepare ourselves for the limits of what these policies can actually accomplish...
What do you still wish to accomplish in your lifetime? Elizabeth Chapman PRINCETON...