Word: attainment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neither of the two teams made it into the World Series, so that pluvious contest will surely never attain the significance I wished for it in my dolor. But my disinterested effort to view a baseball game as historic certainly avoids the consternation that a partisan fan must confront when his team loses, and it may also be the more honorable attitude for the spectator to maintain in the crush of the pennant race. No justification beyond some stretched definition of civic pride exists for the vehement strain of chauvinism that some people, and I am one, hold...
...being," says Dr. John Blitzer, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston. Instead, a woman may now feel that she has to work in order to feel whole. Many women believe that they can make a greater contribution to society or attain a greater sense of personal fulfillment by staying on the job than by staying home with children...
Ford's record on civil rights legislation is mixed; he has supported most major reform bills on the floor but only after first voting to emasculate them. He has long opposed the busing of schoolchildren to attain racial balance, a move that sits well with his Grand Rapids constituents but has earned him the hostility of most major civil rights leaders...
...girl learns to her great sorrow just how right she was in that library: Ethics--in their day-to-day application and not just the textbook variety--are excruciatingly complex. The balance between the demands of personal happiness and the demands of bourgeois propriety is well-neigh impossible to attain. Most people load the scales on the side on propriety. Wedding in Blood is a movie about two people living Thoreauian lives of quiet desperation who choose to throw the scales in the other direction, becoming willing murderers along...
Worried that SALT I could enable the Soviets to attain this advantage, some Senators demanded that SALT II redress the U.S.'s numerical inferiority. With the American superiority in the number of warheads, the demand was plainly unreasonable and unrealistic; it was intended, at least by some Senators, to toughen the U.S. bargaining position. The Soviets responded with a tough line of their own. Their negotiators reportedly declared that they would agree to numerical missile equality with the U.S. only if Washington 1) removed its nuclear-submarine bases from Scotland and Spain, 2) reduced the number of its aircraft...