Word: attaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Economic Growth: The U.S. should strive to attain an economic growth rate of 6% a year instead of the past decade's average of 3% a year. So far, Rockefeller has not explained just how that 6% goal might be reached...
...best postwar rate" of 3½% to 4%, Dulles predicted that by 1970 Russia's output will be 55% of the U.S.'s. The industrial gap may close even faster, says Dulles, since the Russians are expanding their industrial sector 8% or 9% a year, thus should attain 60% of U.S. industrial production by 1970 even if the U.S. industrial growth rate steps...
...University expects to attain its goal through large donations. The campaign in the remaining months will be carried on by 100-150 workers, much less than the number engaged in the nation-wide effort of the last two years...
...romantic love, Serezha discovers a passion more powerful than either: writing. In a scene of almost comic Victorian romanticism, complete with smelling salts and kneeling suitor, Anna Arild rejects Serezha, and the young writer is free to pursue the hard mastery of his craft. Boris Pasternak himself did not attain that mastery until he wrote Doctor Zhivago. Despite its vivid imagery, lyricism and passion for the individual. The Last Summer is an apprentice work...
...believe that every human being inevitably becomes involved in sin and cannot attain salvation without God's intercession, even though man does not merit...