Word: attaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...layer by stratified layer, is as mysterious in its allusions to geological time as any Leonardo landscape. It is also a difference of discipline. The wen-jen served no apprenticeship, and the idea of being "professional" painters would have appalled them. Nevertheless, it was recognized that one could hardly attain mastery of the brush before...
Though the Ibos no longer dominate Nigerian commerce or the civil service as they did before the war, they are reconciled to the new order. Gowon is determined that neither they nor any other tribal group shall ever again attain such a preponderant role. "That is the road back to regional rivalry and despair," he says. "We must be proud of our origins, but work for true nationhood as Nigerians all together...
Even these accomplishments could seem insignificant once the modern Magellans attain their goal of understanding the brain's functions in thought, memory and in consciousness-the sense of identity that distinguishes man from all other known forms of life. Finding the key to these mysteries of the brain, a discovery that would suddenly explain these functions, could lead to better ways of treating the psychoses and neuroses that plague millions. It could result in identification and correction of the causes of many neurological disorders and, by revealing how the brain works, revolutionize thought, education and communication. It might even...
Sharp Rise. Simon nevertheless favors a rise in some fuel prices, both as a curb on burgeoning demand and as an incentive to industry to expand its search for new sources of fuel needed to attain independence from the Arabs and other foreign oil suppliers. But, recognizing that this approach would bring huge profits to the oil industry, he would couple that carrot to a stick: high taxes on any profits over a certain level that were not plowed back into new exploration, new refinery construction or research and development...
...China--equally desirous of the fruits of modernization--ardently resisted westernization. In many ways the Chinese have been successful where Japan was not. The Chinese have yet to attain the economic modernization they desire and future foreign contacts may well bring China a more western character. But China's success thus far in preserving its culture can be laid to the success of Maoism in stripping the country selectively of those traditional elements in its heritage that are incompatible with the regime's plans for China's future. Mao's disdain for the west and his maxim, "Let the past...