Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With five-sixths of the time planned for the Program elapsed, however, approximately $50 million--about five-eights of the goal--have been received, and contributions must increase rapidly to achieve success...
...love is suddenly revealed as the very inability to love, what seemed a wise or manly action toward a friend is seen as the fatal inability really to be close to anyone. Eaton achieves futility and failure in his middle years as others by hard work and determination achieve success. In a memorable finale, Alfred Eaton, the poor little rich boy of 50, is pictured killing time at the fashionable New York clubs, compulsively seeking out the company of older men, and slowly but surely earning the contempt of his second wife...
With Eisenhower striving to cut overall federal spending, McElroy's remarks at an airport news conference by no means brightened the prospect of success...
...would deny that economic assistance relies on the "maintenance of a sound domestic economy," but in the interpretation of "sound" lies the difference between a successful program in Asia and Africa or another failure. The President's version of a sound economy precludes the proper scope in expenditures for technical assistance projects, "bankable" loans and loans whose eventual repayment is doubtful. Yet it is on these outlays, as well as in tariff reductions and private capital, that success in Asia and Africa depends...
...Kelley. After a winter of relative inaction due to an injured leg, Kelley could well return to the form he exhibited sophomore year, when he trailed only Bobby Cleary in the Ivy scoring race. Higginbottom is the best stick-handler on the squad, and much of the line's success will depend on his playmaking ability...