Word: attaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They're searching for that perfect harmony: the blending of eight bodies into a cohesive unit. They're looking to master a new skill, attain greater endurance. They're learning the importance of cooperation...
Almost everyone is involved in the controversy--Dean Epps, Conductor Yannatos, most Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra members--agrees that a 100 per cent Harvard Orchestra would be ideal. Almost no one agrees, however, on how best to attain that goal, or even on whether it can ever be attained...
...incumbent. The challenger invariably is confronted with the question "So how are you going to change things if you're elected?" To convince the voters that he really will produce the specific changes he has been calling for, the challenger must present the public with specific proposals to attain his ends. Recent political history suggests that most such proposals, hastily devised and based on inadequate information, do challenging candidates more harm than good: George McGovern's opponents repeatedly cited his $1000-per-person guaranteed income plan as evidence that he was a wild-eyed, fuzzy-headed radical; Ronald Reagan...
Some foreign observers have argued that a liberal "Eurocommunism" is a major threat to Soviet hegemony and that it would actually be a defeat for the Kremlin if Berlinguer won; it would prove, according to this theory, that the only way a Communist Party could attain power in a democracy is by adhering to Western political ideals. That might well be the case, but it remains unknown what kind of pressure the Soviet Union might still be able to exert on its wayward ally, and also what kind of pressure Berlinguer might have to face from his hard-lining Moscow...
...correct centuries of injustice toward minorities, the bill banned discrimination in education, employment, voting. But the same law^ Glazer reminds readers, prohibited busing or preferential hiring to achieve racial balance. Not long after it was signed, however, zealous bureaucrats and activist judges began adopting these very devices to attain a mathematically precise racial distribution...