Word: fruition
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Except that once in a great while the process does work that way. Thus it was with tax reform, a political miracle that was brought to the verge of fruition by an amazingly varied group of conservatives and liberals, Republicans and Democrats. Some, like New Jersey Democratic Senator Bill Bradley and New York Republican Congressman Jack Kemp, were longtime crusaders. Others, like Ronald Reagan, who supported a 1981 tax bill that was laden with special breaks, were late converts. But eventually, though the public at times seemed skeptical, most politicians came either to favor the idea or to fear...
Prince crashes a socialite party and meets a rich, young heiress (Kristin Scott-Thomas) whom he seduces and falls in love with. However, the heiress' father (Steven Berkoff) is determined to make sure their romance never achieves, shall we say, fruition...
Carrington's associates and followers all point to his successful conclusion of his negotiating effort to create a democratic Zimbabwe as his greatest accomplishment. The peer's effort came to fruition in late 1979, only after he convinced Thatcher to reverse her public position that the rebellion led by Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo was mere terrorism. The settlement--which even Carrington and many members of his negotiating team had believed was impossible, they later said--perhaps could have been achieved only by someone with the unflagging pragmatism and clearheadedness of Carrington, who has demonstrated time and again the willingness...
While Shultz gloated, Treasury Secretary Baker was watching a cherished plan of his own come to fruition. In what is perhaps the most ambitious economic decision ever to emerge from an economic summit, Baker won support for his plan for bringing greater monetary stability to the free world economy. Since 1973, floating exchange rates have been set by the free market. One of the results has been wild fluctuations, including the rapid rise and fall of the dollar over the past two years and the current dramatic appreciation of the yen, which has some Japanese exporters crying for help. Rather...
...Trip to Bountiful has gone a little stale, too. Like the old woman's homecoming, which is fraught with disappointment as well as joy, this film reaches its fruition with less than triumphant results...