That only makes the achievement more remarkable -- the courage they showed in a conflict that claimed more than 400, 000 American lives, leaving so many orphans and widows and Gold Star mothers.
The divergence between education attainment and education achievement is more serious in developing countries than in developed countries as illustrated in the following example.
Today success is synonymous with celebrating at the finish line, holding the trophy or the check, while achievement has more of a work and effort connotation.
That this was Damrau's debut in the role makes the achievement all the more remarkable.
That the Challenge Cup title came against one of the newly enriched elite of French rugby makes the achievement that much more impressive.
We are quietly glad to have played a very small part in what has been a major logistical achievement, feeding more than three million people - almost a third of Malawi's population.
Perhaps a more significant achievement in that Test was his last-wicket partnership of 19 with Jimmy Adams.
"We are making some headway in closing the gaps in achievement between poorer and more affluent children, " he said.
Hedge fund managers, who have played a dominant role in pushing market-oriented school reforms, like nonunionized charter schools, have had their comeuppance as improving achievement has proven far more difficult than they anticipated.
Aside from the novel way in which he has put together his business model, Patterson's achievement is all the more remarkable given that he does not even finish the EMBA until later this month but already has the venture up and running.
Inaugurated in 2010, with major underwriting from the World Bank, the ANIM is the brainchild of Ahmad Sarmast, Afghanistan's first citizen to hold a doctorate in music, and his achievement is all the more remarkable in a nation where the overthrown Taliban regime had declared not just performing but even listening to music a crime against Islam.
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No achievement by a university stimulates more critical alumni giving than a winning sports program.
It's even more of an achievement when you realise that the Australian Open is played on hard courts.
GreenLight Fund will work to close the achievement and opportunity gaps for more youth in Boston, Philadelphia, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Many lawyers believe this is a considerable achievement given the fact that more than 30 million cases are pending in high and district courts in India.
The fact is, packing that kind of processing down into a tablet that runs on batteries, is one more astonishing technical achievement on the part of Apple.
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However British Conservative Malcolm Harbour, who chairs the Internal Market Committee, welcomed the act and said its "biggest achievement" could be getting more people into work and creating more small businesses.
The polished nature of that presentation may have set a false expectation that "The Muppets" was ready to arrive fully formed, while the first two episodes are typical of most comedy pilots: more potential than achievement.
Founded by Salvatore Ferragamo in 1927, in Florence Italy, this season, Ferragamo, in my estimation, had opened up its useful efficiencies of skilled garments and brought forth a readiness of change that is more advanced in achievement than expected in the essentials.
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The training firm did accept that it was recruiting at the "lower end of the achievement spectrum" but said more could be done and said interventions could be made through the arts or sport and more young people should be encouraged to take part in programmes like the Duke of Edinburgh Awards scheme.
There are more than enough problems affecting children, particularly educational under-achievement, bullying, drugs and crime, without deliberately adding more.
What's so special about this - almost more than the historic achievement of a first Grand Slam in 27 years - is the guys that did it.
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The previous book examined the history of the postwar period, examining how mass affluence transformed American culture, making people more introspective and more focused on the achievement of non-material goals.
To be honest, if Facebook can manage 50% revenue growth for any significant period from here out, that achievement would be extraordinary, be more than satisfactory to build one of the most valuable businesses on earth (more so than they are already one of those), and is probably a high-end scenario unless the company develops entirely new lines of business.
More splits would mean less progress on essential fiscal reforms, delay in the achievement of stable economic growth and perhaps, thereby, more crime.
In the more cutthroat precincts of American achievement, women don't reach the top by bringing in doughnuts in the morning.
The juxtaposition could not have been more shocking (as it was calculated to be) or more accurate in highlighting the achievement of these African works.
The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls in return for steadily decreasing amounts of effort.
The project also found that using multiple measures to understand a teacher's performance -- including classroom observations, student surveys and growth in student achievement -- provides a richer and more reliable picture of a teacher's strengths and areas for improvement than any one measure alone.
But they do not provide a more detailed picture of differences in achievement within countries.
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