That ingenuity is present in smaller projects, as well, especially the Civilian Conservation Corps campgrounds built within the nation's system of parks, one of Roosevelt's most cited achievements.
He cited achievements such as the creation of the National Grid for Learning, launched in 1998, which provided a gateway to online educational resources; the Self-Review Framework, which let schools assess their own use of ICT; and Laptops for Teachers, which got teachers who might have been unfamiliar with computers to use them.
The cited achievements include improving quality and marketability of Chinese cigarettes and new sales revenue of about $27.5 billion over the last 3 years.
The authors described evidence of a limited effect on shifting services out of hospital but cite achievement of reductions in waiting times for treatment, procuring new services and securing financial balance after a deficit.
And Mr. Milton cites achievements like building the airline's frequent flier plan up to 6 million members, impressive in a country with fewer than 25 million adults.
In jointly awarding the two men the Nobel Prize in 1985, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited their achievement "in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures".
Voters... who were backing Anderson often cited his achievement in bringing a cruise liner facility to the Mersey as their reason for supporting him.
There's been a lot of nonsense written about SATC the TV series in recent weeks, often by journalists who never watched it (in fact, one writer of a recent piece cited that achievement as a point of pride before then listing his reasons for hating the show, reasons he presumably pulled out of his ass).
In 1984, the Times critic Donal Henahan wrote that "this was the year of the woman in music," and cited such achievements as the first-ever Pulitzer awarded to a female composer, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, who received the prize in 1983.
Speaking to a crowd of about 1,200 people, many of them bused in from New York City by union leaders, Mr. Pataki cited his achievements in cutting taxes, forcing welfare recipients to work and conserving open space.
I gave him the letter from the Maroko Evictees Committee; he cited his achievements in employment and housing creation, on an annual budget of three quarters of a billion dollars, and he blamed the federal government — which is based in Abuja, two hundred and fifty miles to the northeast, and has long had a hostile relationship with Lagos — for politically motivated financial neglect.
