Word: attaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ever went to more trouble than Rockefeller to attain an office for which he was, if anything, overqualified. He was subjected to relentless, often brutal questioning by his congressional investigators. Yet after less than a year in office he announced last week that "it's just not worth it" to remain on the ticket. He was candid about the reasons for his decision. "I came down to Washington to serve the country I love and to help in solving the problems which we face. I did not come down to get caught up in party squabbles. I came here...
...both exclusivity and inclusivity in subcultural practices or endeavors, while simultaneously cultivating an open-ended universalism or cosmopolitanism as a style (value) for national institutions. At the extreme of exclusivism is the Amish model: total rejection of and isolation from modern society, cosmopolitanism and all. This is difficult to attain but if you work at it, as the great Amish people of my home state of Pennsylvania have, you can achieve much of it--including, of course, the many privations the Amish endure. On the other hand, inclusivism ranges, on one side, from open-ended cosmopolitanism to what might...
...repair and other elective operations. For years the nation's 15,000 junior hospital doctors have put up with the long hours (more than 80 a week) and low wages (still held to a maximum of ?6,279 or $12,872 a year) because they have hoped to attain the status of "consultants"-senior specialists who could treat private patients in government hospitals. Now, however, the Labor government is threatening to remove even this incentive. In 1974 it returned to office on a platform that included the eventual banning of all private beds and private medical practice...
Despite a multitude of hardships and the fact that water polo has yet to attain varsity status at Harvard, team co-captains Dan Daiss '76 and Warren Otto '76 are nonetheless predicting a successful season...
...Kent State verdict [Sept. 8] is one more illustration of the system's refusal to redress the most legitimate grievances of its citizenry. Those who still believe that it is possible to attain fundamental justice from the agencies of a corrupt and decadent power structure have one more tragic example of the uselessness of such misguided faith. Moreover, it is now abundantly clear that white middle-class youngsters are as vulnerable to the system's excesses as are blacks, Indians, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans and poor whites...