Word: attainment
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Lippmann went on to a career in journalism that saw him attain almost the status of an oracle in the course of publishing over 4000 columns, mostly for a syndicate headed by The New York Herald Tribune...
...Government Responsibility reported to Congress that, despite Executive objections, the law could and should be amended to assure greater access. That critical conclusion found detailed support in an examination of the act in the current Columbia Law Review. Without needed amendments, said Author Gregory Waples, "the statute cannot attain the lofty ideals that mesmerized its drafters...
Until now, the commercial results have surprised eager entrepreneurs by their failure to attain superhit status. It may be that there is less to Bruce's legend than meets the enthusiast...
...work," a concept of a fundamentally different order. However much sacrifice and abnegation involved, work has for the male remained a willful manipulation of ideas and material in the external world. The entries in the Power section are testimony to the perspectives of women who were able to attain sufficient distance from male distortions to examine life from a human perspective. Each section is an enlightening approach to the ever elusive "self," whose pursuit has fascinated the keepers of journals...
After World War II, however, it seemed that man at long last was winning the battle against hunger. Bumper harvests in many nations, notably the U.S., created food surpluses in the West, while the development of "miracle seeds" brought the hope that the densely populated poor countries would soon attain self-sufficiency. Then, in the past two years, this optimism turned to despair as hunger and famine began ravaging hundreds of millions of the poorest citizens in at least 40 nations. Much of the ground gained in the battle for food seemed lost as the world's harvest...