Word: attained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pointed out that within every ethnic group a certain amount of time is needed for the group to produce scholars who can meet the standards of academic competition. "Such achievement is not possible in the first generation," Ford said, noting that people of Chinese extraction are just beginning to attain professorships at many American universities...
...Task of Scholarship. Speaking of the ecumenical spirit as "this surprising fact," Cardinal Bea (pronounced Bay-uh) again and again referred to the lack of Christian unity as "a painful story, an open wound that goes on bleeding and hurting." Healing the wound to attain perfect unity will be long and hard, he warned, and we must not "search for compromises." But while this union is in God's hands, men can prepare the way. Scholarship, said the cardinal, could help bring churches together by clearing away the misconceptions and prejudices that led to the historic schisms, by finding...
...with relatively little effect. Now the Government must realize more than that discrimination in America is morally intolerable. It must also realize that if integration is not enforced by the President and officers of the law, it will be fought for by men who have waited 300 years to attain full citizenship. The fight will be carried on with violence as well as words. And civil violence is in nobody's best interest...
...receive all or nearly all of their income from salaries (or from fees or royalties not sheltered from taxation). Such people typically have only meager net assets despite their hefty pretax incomes. Far from accumulating capital, they often have to borrow to put their children through college. They attain their levels of prosperity only after many years of gradually working their way up, bucking a headwind of ever higher tax rates. And as they approach their earnings peaks they find themselves paying tax rates that, measured by percentage of gross income, are on the same order as those actually paid...
Other students are canvassing Negro neighborhoods to discover how widely various products are used; only those with extensive distribution could be effectively boycotted. At the same time the canvassers are compiling a list of people who need jobs or want to attain better ones. Thus they will have a list of available workers if a company should decide to hire more Negroes...