I also didn't write the book to preach some moral message but I think it does subtly convey the idea that our worth is not in doing – in achieving, acquiring and winning, but rather in being.
So New Orleanians, by and large, aren't tortured by the frenzy to achieve, acquire, and manage the unmanageable future.
The general idea here is that if something is beneficial, and believing that p will help us achieve, acquire, or actualize that thing, then it is prima facie prudent for us to believe that p. This will be true even if we lack sufficient evidence for the belief that p, and even if we are aware of that lack.
In addition, even when market access is achieved, acquiring and maintaining sufficient reimbursement is far from certain, particularly given pressures on broader health care costs, and physician adoption cannot be assumed.
If each of the former spouses maintains an eye on what the other has or hasn't achieved or acquired or kept and measures it negatively against what they themselves have achieved or acquired or managed to keep or reclaim, it can make it difficult to impossible to move on - sometimes for years.
Especially now that some social justice activists have rendered privilege as a sort of moral defect, it's easy to feel not just protective of but defensive about what you've achieved and acquired.
Recent data have shown that young adult women have a higher prevalence of normal length but anovulatory cycles than older women (Hambridge et al., 2013), further suggesting that optimal follicle function is not achieved or acquired until at least the mid-20s.
That is achieved by acquiring mutations that prevent the shortening of the ends of chromosomes, or telomeres.
"The biggest problem of all is not having relationships or friends, but not being able to achieve and acquire what I desire in those or many other areas," said an entry dated on Sunday.
