There is the history that was told in PowerPoint presentations and barroom gabfests here at CSHL this autumn in the autumn of the careers of many pioneers, whose conflicts with each other long have been eclipsed by their collective accomplishment and their continued efforts to make HIV, once and for all, a thing of the past.
Much of this book is about Don Shula, and how his will transformed the Dolphins from an inept afterthought to a team that would achieve perhaps the single greatest collective accomplishment in the history of sports.
Chivers, in his book, contends the rifle was in fact "the output not of a man but of committees," a collective accomplishment strangely attributed to the uneducated peasant that the Kremlin wanted to present as a hero instead of lauding the gun's development as proof of the virtues of central planning.
So there is nothing new or unusual about Israelis' marking their collective accomplishments with sorrow and concern.
In successful organizations, everyone knows the central purpose and everyone needs to have a personal connection so their contributions add to the collective accomplishments.
With no discredit to both their individual and collective accomplishments, much of their influence is rooted in the access they've gained due to their growing obsessions with image and associations with one another.
Our collective accomplishments on Election Day serve to remind the country both that working families are ready to vote – and organize – for change, and that we have yet to solve the real crises facing ACORN members and the American public.
Or maybe it was the consultants advising sitting U.S. Senators - who had campaigned side-by-side just 2 years ago with President Obama - to ban him from campaigning or touting their collective accomplishments - as if there were no accomplishments - as if President Obama didn't win 2 terms for President of the United States with the help of millions of independent non-Democrat voters.
The participants identified policies and initiatives, collective accomplishments, infrastructure developments, health systems changes, and programmatic initiatives operating locally, as well as global changes that affect Bangladesh.
Jack Stutman Orlando, Fla., Aug. 12, 2008 To the Editor: David Brooks makes a false distinction between China's accomplishments, deemed "collective" and therefore "miraculous," and the accomplishments of the West, which he ascribes to our individualism.
And the moon landing was a brilliant vehicle for that kind of collective resonance and personal accomplishment.
