Certainly the freedom offered to people of all backgrounds to try something new has had much to do with American achievements.

No one else had ever been able to match the American achievement.

It would be a rejection of that stunning American achievement, the political leaders tell themselves, to back off from manned spaceflight.

Behind us we can look back and see the great expanse of American achievement.

There is little genius here, for the real American cultural achievement of that century was in furniture making, not paintings or sculpture.

Jackson's victory was sandwiched between the other American achievements.

Will the influx of students into the field last, and can it raise American educational achievement along the way?

In fact, it may well be one of the outstanding American automotive achievements of the decade.

Will the surge of students into computer science last, and could it help raise American educational achievement?

Thus the recent renderings of the American achievements in air and space.