Word: attained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nixon doesn't miss the chance to make a comment or two about Khruschev's untrustworthiness or duplicity. But when it comes to the leaders he really would like to emulate, he is systematically silent about their personal incorruptability. For it was moral worth that Nixon himself could never attain. And that's something he can't gloss over...
...combination of Soviet military acquisitiveness and geopolitical assertiveness has led some in the West, notably Ronald Reagan, to an alarming conclusion: despite its declared aspiration merely to attain parity with the U.S., the U.S.S.R. has actually achieved across-the-board superiority. But that judgment does not take sufficiently into account a number of problems that plague the Soviet Union and offset what otherwise might be decisive advantages. Precisely because it has been so unrestrained in beefing up its military might and throwing its weight around the world, the Soviet Union has provoked countermeasures by the West that will further complicate...
Although he is now unable to perceive and describe familiar moment in modern life, Joel apparently has perceived his own slide into sweet-sounding fluff, and on The Nylon Curtain he desperately tries to do something about it. In a last-gasp attempt to attain relevance, he sings about Issues: you know, Unemployment, Social Pressure, Viet Nam, and, of course, Sesame Street. Instead of seizing an elevated song-writing status. Joel glaringly reveals his own detachment from the emotions and situations he describes to others...
Acquaintance seems a bare minimum, and even that is difficult enough to attain in a world where millions cannot read and millions more read mainly falsehoods or formulas. Yet the basic questions of education still reach deep into every aspect of life: What is it essential to learn-to know-and why? Everyone seems to have his own answer, but there are interesting patterns among those answers. They can be organized into five main ideas...
Because of the controversy surrounding the academic-industry relationship, many companies are striving to attain "in-house" capacities, which would leave them more self-sufficient and as independent from universities as possible. An official of Biotechnica says that since the company is just now building permanent labs, many of its employees are still maintaining their academic posts. But he adds that after the labs are completed, many of the researchers plan to leave their jobs to join the company full-time. Although the companies are drawing away some untenured professors, post-docs, and technicians, most professors believe that universities...