Word: successful
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...long time, "Mr. 'Umphrey"?as Wallace refers to the Vice President ? received more attention than "Mr. Nixon." Lately, because of Nixon's success at the polls, he has turned his fire on the Republican, who is credited with a variety of sins, from deceitfulness to being part of the Administration that sent troops to Little Rock in 1957. Last week there was a new charge in the catalogue. The reason Nixon is so far ahead in the polls, Wallace averred in Albany, N.Y., is simple: he controls the pollsters and manipulates public opinion with the help...
...monastery itself is so new that even Suzuki is unwilling to predict total success. He is pleased by the dedication of his students, even though he observes that "Americans have too much freedom." Baker is even more enthusiastic. "There are more potential students of Zen here than there are in Japan," he insists. "We are a bunch of Americans trying to find out what religion is-and that is real religion...
This year, under new Administrator Howard Samuels, the S.B.A. has switched to looking for middleclass, college-trained Negroes with enough business experience to give them real potential for success. Searching for more of them, Samuels has opened storefront offices in ghettos. He is also stretching the S.B.A.'s $1.1 billion loan kitty by guaranteeing loans made by private lenders, has lined up support from dozens of major banks. Last week five of Manhattan's largest banks agreed to provide up to $50 million to help minority businessmen. A consortium of 23 Houston banks has pledged...
...your own terms, and certainly in any measurable sense, liberal-university subversion of government departments and policies has been a total failure. The only apparent "success" is an ever-expanding government collaboration which results in providing legitimacy and support for government policies. So much for "getting results." There is no need for me to preach about moral purity or evangelistic idealism ... this is plain pragmatism...
Fairly blushing with my success of the past week, I turn to the first all Ivy weekend of the 1968 season. All eight teams engage in intra-League combat with one game--Dartmouth vs. Princeton--dominating the proceedings...