By 1932, veterans were so unhappy about their service bonuses, issued in 1924 but unredeemable for two decades, that they descended en masse on Washington, which succeeded in scuppering Herbert Hoover's reelection bid but didn't achieve much for the vets.
After a presidency mainly preoccupied with the Russia-Georgia war and global economic meltdown, what has Mr Sarkozy's energetic, abrasive, impulsive brand of diplomacy really amounted to?In terms of their set-piece ambitions, the French achieved much of what they aimed for.
The truth is, the Davis camp has achieved much of what it had hoped for (while the often-snoozing California media missed it) and in the process revealed just how cunning it is.
As for internationalisation, just as years of talks have not brought Palestinian independence, countless UN resolutions have not achieved much tangible for the Palestinians either.
Mr. Wilson, who grew up in a family of artists, might seem like just a local eccentric, but he has achieved much attention for his unusual art, working apart from traditional conventions and institutions.
The content-based query-by-example (QBE) technique where users query with sound recordings they consider acoustically similar to those they hope to retrieve has achieved much success for both music [1] and environmental sounds [2].
Recently, the ZnO nanostructures doped with rare earth elements such as Ce, Y, and Eu have achieved much attention for biological tagging as well as optoelectronic applications due to their unique optical properties [5 7].
Chemical methods such as calcium-phosphate or liposome-based approaches have achieved much success for in vitro applications in cell cultures, but have been of more limited utility in vivo due to low transfection efficiencies and toxicity issues [ 16- 18].
