Word: attaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finds her subject perhaps too fascinating for an orderly, steady-pulsed narrative, and now and then the reader is vexed by her somewhat florid digressions. But the period is little known and the players absorbing. Mme. de Stael's remark is quoted: "In Russia, if they do not attain their objective, they always go past it." The author can be forgiven if she does both...
...remarkably genteel affair. No one really called anyone a liar (Kennedy came closer, but then, Nixon came closer to lying); Kennedy even accepted without comment or quarrel Nixon's assertion that the two candidates differ not on the goals for America, but only on the means by which to attain them. There is, after all, a point at which a difference on means becomes in effect a difference on ends...
Speaking on "The Campaign Issues of 1960," Bush said that the greatest issue today is "which party can best attain our national goal of peace in this world, with honor...
While TIME is not necessarily a publication of split-minute deadlines or old-fashioned scoops, this new-fashioned in-depth reporting helps the editors attain the quality that TIME readers expect...
...position in a different way, an entirely new mode of evolution has come into being. For an intelligent being can both decide what he wants his future and that of other living beings to. be. and take steps to modify the environment and the genetic material in order to attain...