With those thoughts in mind, director Mira Nair's telling of Amelia Earhart's relatively short life and long accomplishments resonates even more profoundly.
It wasn't until Torre told them to celebrate their season-long accomplishment that the players began to relax and open Champagne bottles.
Emanuel Steward said this week that he considered his molding of Lennox Lewis into the dominant heavyweight of his era his greatest long-term accomplishment in boxing.
The Mets will view yesterday's loss as a short-term setback and a long-term accomplishment because of Martínez's performance.
It will be fascinating to see how long his accomplishments will last, just how successful they will finally be judged, and whether Salzburg will ever again settle into the gold-plated somnolence in which it previously luxuriated.
The only major long-term accomplishment of Tailer's tenure as acting governor was the establishment of Boston Light, the first lighthouse built in what is now the United States.
Health-care reform and financial reform were major long-term accomplishments, but the only thing that will matter in the next two years is visible progress on jobs.
Bloomberg L.P. acquired BusinessWeek last year, giving the 29-year-old company a print product with a long legacy of accomplishment.
He declined to comment for this article, but a spokeswoman said that Mr. Oxley "has a long record of accomplishment on behalf of individual investors".
"Her mother, regardless of whether anyone agrees with her ideology or not, has a long history of accomplishment in the public arena," said Margaret D. Tutwiler, the United States ambassador to Morocco, who has known Liz Cheney for years.
But what designer with Mr. Yamamoto's long history of accomplishment and regret has not at one time felt the furious need to slash it to bits, to destroy those threadbare notions of taste and elegance?
