Word: attainable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officials concerned with managing the U.S. economy both spoke up for the tight-money policy. Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson in a speech to the World Bank-IMF meeting noted that the U.S. is "gaining in the battle of inflation," but stressed "the continuing vigil we must keep to attain economic growth along with, and based on, sound money." Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin warned that nations yielding to inflation "will not have a higher standard of living but a lower...
...fighting will be required to make the law effective. Hollister's successor at the ICA, James Smith, 47, onetime Pan American World Airways vice president, is well aware of the problems ahead-and the objectives. Said he: "We must undertake to help other countries become of age and attain economic growth. And by help I do not mean giveaways. I mean that same kind of sensible, useful help that you would give to a new enterprise in your own community...
...making its turbid case for the golden rule, this film preaches with the earnestness of a morality play, but its melodramatic heights seldom attain those of Little Orphan Annie. Wallowing Methodically in his Slough of Despond, Sal Mineo-pouting, simpering, and rolling his eyeballs on the rocky road to manhood-is singularly unconvincing as a meek and mild sort of Michelangelo angel who is all set to inherit the earth...
With awe I read of Piet Mondrian's supreme effort-when he painted a canvas composed of a white background with two black lines. One can only regret that he did not live long enough to attain the ultimate-the virgin canvas untouched by brush...
...program and seek an attitude which it was patently impossible to give them. And surely they must think this ideal highly desirable if they felt it was desirable to convince the vast majority of students that they were less than they ought to be because they could not attain this ideal...