Word: attainment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Teachers, headed by powerful, blustering Albert Shanker, reached an agreement with the Board of Education. The board dropped demands for more work from teachers, promised to hire 1,200 more security guards, and gave in on a few other points, such as reducing the number of years needed to attain tenure from five to three. The board also agreed to pay raises that were small for beginning teachers but made experienced ones the best paid in the nation. In the contract's third year, a teacher with advanced degrees and 7½ years of experience will earn...
...said that students can attain their aspirations with the help of a college education although he emphasized that other experiences--factory work or travel--are equally valid...
...groups recognize that unity is essential for victory, but they have yet to agree on a way to attain the necessary cohesion. And the Portuguese aren't about to help out. They play off one group against the others, much as they fomented tribal wars in the previous five centuries of their involvement in Angola...
...strategy and tactics and plane geometry, but in learning to use the pieces as a cooperative team. I would put little emphasis on the elements of hostility and aggression, and dismiss completely the sexual symbolism. The players are trying to overcome difficulties, and while they are also trying to attain mastery, the game is a form of social intercourse...
...sleeping at night when the has been restless, and gets the same pettish reprimand in return. But they seem to grow closer and closer, even during their few days in Tokyo, in the face of a new world and the exclusion from the lives of their children. They attain a perfect unity as they sit side by side gazing out to sea, lonely misfits at a holiday resort, so attuned that even their kimonos match...