Word: successes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tons of sugar next year. What makes that goal remarkable is that this year's crop will probably total no more than 4,500,000 tons. Nonetheless, despite drought, shoddy Soviet machinery and Cuba's inefficient armies of "volunteer" cane cutters, the Maximum Leader is confident of success. And why not? To achieve his target, Fidel is stretching the calendar...
...Legal Services Program see themselves as ombudsmen for the poor. As such, they do more than represent individual indigents in minor court actions. They also sue state and local governments on behalf of welfare recipients, migrant workers and other large groups of poor people. The growing success of such broad test cases may be measured by the opposition that has surfaced in the U.S. Senate...
Greater Respect. Senator Murphy's target is one of the most ambitious Legal Services programs: the California Rural Legal Assistance project. In three years, CRLA lawyers have won 85% of more than 35,000 cases. Their success has nourished a greater respect for law among the state's rural poor, especially Mexican Americans. In 1967, the agency upset Governor Ronald Reagan when it won a suit to prevent him from cutting benefits for almost 1,500,000 people in the state's medical-assistance program. Reagan threatened to veto CRLA's aDoropriation but reportedly...
...shattering study of good and evil. The Magus was both a love and adventure tale and an erudite venture into occult philosophy. Richer and more accomplished than either. The French Lieutenant's Woman seems destined to be a bestseller. It is the kind of work that helps give success a good name...
...Despite his early success. Harrison is quick to acknowledge a certain difficulty in fighting in with the more experienced members of the team. "I'm still bothered by sophomore mistakes." he said "most of which can be cured by experience. Right now, my major problem is carrying out blocking assignments on the end sweeps which we run a lot. I'm overcoming these sophomore problems, though...