Word: attainable
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...hour slots. We get to compartmentalize a relationship, push it aside for exams and essays, e-mail and eating. If a relationship becomes too bothersome or too empty, we have an easy solution: Simply adjust the commitment. Like a patient in a hospital, we just change the dosage to attain a more pleasurable state. And how easy it is to change the commitment. A short e-mail or phone message, or a cup of coffee will do the trick...
...Affirmative Action Plan, the University pledged to remain "firmly committed to attain[ing] racial and gender diversity, believing that a diverse faculty is essential to excellent scholarship and teaching." In a letter dated Feb. 11, 1997, Rudenstine wrote to Schmertzler: "There is nothing I regard as more important to Harvard's future excellence than sustaining and enhancing the quality of appointments to the tenured faculty, and achieving that objective will depend in considerable degree on our success in appointing greater numbers of outstanding women scholars and teachers to tenured positions across the university...
...answer to the question is the life in accordance with reason, how does one attain such a life? Well it can be certain that one doesn't just wake up one day and decide to live according to reason. No, in order to live this life, one must, as Plato's sharpest student Aristotle said (more or less), practice, practice, practice. But as Bennett so wryly notes, this "is the medicine so many people find hard to swallow...
...there was no two ways about it. I was going to have to sacrifice three of the best years of my young life in order to attain what would prove to be, or so I at least hoped, a greater level of intellectual sophistication and professional maturity...
Through work on the production, Swados has learned a great deal about the young in the '90s. Particularly she has noticed that young people are under greater pressure to produce and attain specific goals. "People are trying to squash their imaginations. Of course, the kids that I've worked with won't let that happen. But for the most part, their sense of time is much more urgent than mine was," Swados says...