Word: attaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year, Tsang was so proficient at both instruments that he was accepted to the Saturday School at Juliard, and became the youngest musician to attain that honor. Back then, Tsang recalls, he could never have predicted his current plans to be a professional musician, and knew only that he loved music...
...system is the main barrier to reinvigorating the economy relations, above all economic ones . . . We should, we are bound to attain within the briefest period the most advanced scientific and technical positions, the highest world level in the productivity of social labor." --MIKHAIL GORBACHEV...
...critical difference is that at the new system uses a straightforward scale of grade point averages and counts all letter-graded courses toward a student's GPA. In order to receive College-wide honors under the new regulations, a student will have to attain a minimum overall GPA in addition to meeting separate departmental requirements. The College-wide standards agreed upon are an 11.0 GPA for cum laude in General Studies, 10.5 for cum laude, and 12.0 for magna cum laude. Requirements for summa cum laude are subject to annual adjustment by the Faculty...
...critical difference is that the new system uses a straightforward scale of grade point averages and counts all letter-graded courses toward a student's GPA. In order to receive college-wide honor under the new regulations a student will have to attain a minimum overall GPA in addition to meeting separate departmental requirements. The college-wide standards agreed upon are an 11.0 GPA for cum laude in General Studies, 10.5 for cum laude and 2.0 for magna cum laude. Requirements for summa cum Laude are subject to annual adjustments by the Faculty...
...almost two-thirds the size of the U.S. Three years ago, policemen noticed that relatively primitive Indians were suddenly sporting modern clothes and traveling in motorboats. The peasants, they learned, had been pressured by Colombians into cultivating epadu, a shrubby small tree that can grow in the forest and attain a height of 10 ft. Epadu contains about 40% less active alkaloid than the more common coca variety cultivated in the Andes and yields less pure cocaine per kilo. But it costs the trafficker 60% less to buy and can sprout as many as 30 shoots, often very rapidly...