Word: attainability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negroes, only 5% of the 11,000 officers are black. Of the 380 combat-battalion commands in the war, only two are held by Negro officers. Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke, during his Viet Nam tour in March, received many complaints that the Negro is not given the opportunity to attain command; he cites the case of a Negro colonel who, when promoted, was given a desk job that had never existed before simply to keep him from being assigned to a line command. One reason, of course, is that too many potential Negro officers lack the educational requirements for command...
...Senate also recommended a continuation of deferments for college students until they attain their degree, reach 24 years of age, or lose their college standing...
...exchange for this commitment, GSAS takes care of all the student's financial needs except those he can provide for with his two years of teaching. Since the student does not have to get his fellowship renewed annually, he need not feel pressured to attain especially high grades. A student holding an annual fellowship may lose it if he fails to obtain...
...less prestigious school, said Parsons, there seemed little pressure to publish. A sense of pressure was felt primarily in the middle type of institution, which is trying to attain the status of the leading schools...
...odds with his own teachings, judged by today's standards emphasizing faith alone, yet dedicated to service. This and other apparent confusions are cleared up when he is understood as supporting the Biblical view of faith resulting in service and concern rather than service as an effort to attain faith. You also accurately presented Luther as a man truly ecumenical, not wishing to divide the church or to separate himself from it but simply to reform it. The basic error of modern theology-which is frequently difficult to separate from politics, philosophies and other areas of thought...