Word: attaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...qualify for regionals, a rider has to attain at least 28 points. In the last show of the season, the freshman won a blue ribbon (seven points) to reach regionals, her fourth ribbon of the year...
They may plan festive retreats once a year. And they may publish a "leader's handbook" which presumably would help run-of-the-mill Harvard students attain the exalted "student officer" status...
...stunned. "Must be a cruel joke," I thought. Or perhaps some strange dining hall prophecy about a March to come to in a distant future, when even Seafood Seashell Scampi or the nameless big beefy "extravaganzas" in brown gravy will attain nutritional grandeur...
...point is that diversity is a goal worth some sacrifice from all of us, and a goal that isn't achieved spontaneously. Moreover, diversity is worthwhile in a college which can attain it so easily as Harvard can. Members of the College would do well to pursue a healthy balance between choice and diversity and support Jewett's new proposal...
That is one reason keyboards have a way to go before they attain pure musical respectability. "When the keyboard is used for gimmicks and effect, the status, the art and the tonality are lost," says Paul Ellison, chairman of the string department at the U.S.C. School of Music. "It's not coming from the soul of the artist, it's coming from the brain." Indeed, there are lots of switches and buttons to get used to, even on simpler keyboards...