Word: attaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tone he was able to attain, by adopting Truman's give-'em-hell style. Perspiration pouring from his face, his voice hoarse, his eyes coldly angry, Carter gave a shouting stump speech unlike almost any he has delivered before, in content as well as manner. It was a headlong assault on his rival, Ronald Reagan, depicting him as a dweller in "a world of tinsel and make-believe" who would "launch an all-out nuclear arms race" and start "an attack on everything that we've done in the achievement of social justice and decency in the last 50 years...
After four seasons of starring for the Crimson, it seems only fitting that the All-American midfielder will cap off his career with a playoff performance. That prestigious berth at the NCAAs eluded the Crimson until this year, and finally achieving it allows Predun to attain all the goals he set in an outstanding year...
Every course can attain these standards, but only if each professor meets once a week with his section leaders and teaches one section himself or, alternatively, rotates through different sections. Every section should be videotaped at the Danforth Center, where any instructor, whether a professor or graduate student, can receive confidential advice on his teaching...
...pressure in such matters as modernizing NATO's tactical nuclear arsenal and boycotting this summer's Moscow Olympic Games. In Paris, Soviet Ambassador Stepan Chervonenko stated that unless the allies resist, they would be turned into "an instrument for America's global policy" and would allow the U.S. to "attain strategic objectives on the backs of others." When Bonn indicated that it would probably follow the U.S. lead and boycott the Olympics, the Soviet Ambassador to West Germany warned that such a decision would have "political consequences in the relations between the Federal Republic and the Soviet Union." Japan also...
...arms limitations with us (as, for instance, in the case of the Backfire bomber), the Russians have not adopted this definition at all. Their criterion for determining what constitutes strategic weapons is not geographic but functional: a strategic weapon to them is one which, regardless of its range, can attain immediate strategic objectives, which always and everywhere entail depriving the enemy of the capability to offer resistance. The geographic criterion, that is, losses of territory with the people and resources located on them, has in their military thinking a secondary importance. This attitude results in part from historic experience...