Word: attainability
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...changed since 1997, housing costs in 10 cities surveyed by the National Coalition for the Homeless, among them Oakland, Calif., and Minneapolis, Minn., have shot up between 19% and 26% this year alone. That means a family must earn at least $13.87 an hour, a wage few hope to attain, to pay for a two-bedroom apartment...
...living wage floor that rises along with the cost of living, the immense power imbalance between Harvard and the workers who maintain the University will return poverty to our campus within a few years. And in a few more years, its cure will be even more difficult to attain. The HCECP and the Harvard administration cannot diffuse our moral indignation by paying the community lip service with short-term fixes that force it to repeat the same battles every few years...
...servants are the utter embodiment of evil, with no goal other than to dominate the world under a pall of darkness. Frodo, Gandalf and Aragorn, the protagonists of the novel, have no wish other than to see Middle Earth live in peace and are willing to sacrifice themselves to attain that goal...
Osama bin Laden's jihad was proclaimed in the name of a past that never existed in order to attain a future that can never be. Islam's golden age was one of tolerance, which the terrorism of today can never reclaim. GORDON S. FOWKES Sugar Land, Texas...
...model who will do almost anything to gain entrance into “the mirrored room,” a magical place whose inhabitants embody success and fame. Her failure to revive her modeling career leads her to alcoholism, a sort of selective amnesia and depression. Desperate to attain her dream, Charlotte signs on to a new commercial venture best described as the Internet version of “The Real World” or The Truman Show. As the project takes on a life of its own, nurtured by the public’s insatiable appetite for intimate...