Word: attains
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Guinier attributed her failure to attain thecivil rights post in large part to the media'sconflation of her proportional representationsystem with that of quotas, saying that anyone whoknew her or read her work would know that she wasnot in support of quotas...
...tune under pressure from the government, which feared mass panic and worse, a possible reduction in tax compliance.) Let's not go running around throwing money at expensive schemes like asteroid-whacking nuclear missiles and backyard asteroid shelters until we at least consider the benefits of letting human life attain a dignified closure...
That's a credo we at TIME share, as demonstrated by another distinction we were proud to attain last week. Three of TIME's Washington journalists--bureau chief Michael Duffy and correspondents Viveca Novak and Michael Weisskopf--won the prestigious Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for their dogged coverage of campaign-finance abuses. TIME shared the prize, awarded by Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, with the Seattle Times, which published a series on toxic wastes in fertilizers...
...Carswell '97 was the last Harvard athlete to attain All-American laurels at NCAAs. Carswell accomplished that last year. Teammate Killian Lonergan '97 just missed making the final...
...case, the issue at hand is greater than the academic parlor game of "Who killed J.R?" For the Berkowitz camp, the question is whether there is a legal cause of action through which the professor can attain a new tenure hearing and/or financial damages for irreparable harm. For the Joint Committee on Appointments, the question is whether due process was violated so that the supposed sanctity and neutrality of the tenure process which former Dean of FAS Henry Rosovsky heralds in The University, is maintained. For the University community as a whole, the question is whether this method...