Word: successful
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There are no doubts in the Ivory Coast. Eight years after the country won its independence from France and installed him as President, Houphouët has created one of Black Africa's few real success stories, leading his tiny (127,800 sq. mi.) West Coast nation in a massive development drive that stresses solid economic achievement over showy industrial schemes. At a time when other African leaders are preaching a hazy socialism, Houphouët is a shrewd conservative who insists that "politics is the art of accommodating human and material realities...
...Crimson upset B.U. 8-5 when the teams last met at Watson, and should Coach Cooney Weiland's skaters enjoy similar success tonight they will move into the round of four at the Garden. But Cornell, which has had some close contests with both B.U. and Princeton, has handled Harvard twice with consummate ease and is odds-on to retain the Eastern championship it won last year...
Public acceptance of highway safety programs is central to their success. Thus while seat belts are at present the most effective available protection against injury and death in automobile crashes, they are used by only a minority of drivers...
Next to its extent and complexity, the present system of motor vehicle regulation is remarkable principally for the lack of evidence of its effectiveness--at least so far as the limited studies of the subject can be said to provide evidence of success or failure. It is part of the folklore of American government--perhaps of modern government generally--that serious and significant government intervention in social processse is invariably accompanied by the development of large bureaucracies and intricate regulatory mechanisms and the only way to avoid the latter is eschew the former. That is to say that active government...
...thinks a lot of them, bringing them here and all. But then they find that Harvard doesn't treat them very well. It just dumps them and leaves them alone. They tend to doubt how good they are when they run into a bunch of white kids who expect success and know exactly how to get along in this place which they don't. Harvard doesn't give them the continuing support to get by that their acceptance led them to expect...