Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...response to the summer riots, praised it as if it were his own,* jubilantly bringing a host of business and municipal leaders to the White House for the announcement. "What the Government does," he told the gathering, "really is only the beginning. Private efforts are not just essential to success-they are central to success...
...which the court ruled that commodities trading and the Board of Trade served a legitimate purpose, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes sagely commented that when competent men engage in speculation, it is "the self-adjustment of society to the probable." But he added that its pervasive peril surfaces when "the success of the strong induces imitation by the weak, and incompetent persons bring themselves to ruin." Incompetent speculators lack, somehow, the sang-froid of an emotionless Baruch or the attributes of another successful pre-Depression speculator, Joseph P. Kennedy. Old Joe succeeded in the Great Bull Market...
...gimlet-eyed merchant, agrees-if he can absorb the entire firm and expunge his father's name. Deeper shades of Oedipus. In the end, mother goes mad; Simon and Sara's doom seems to await another play. The collegiate aphorist in O'Neill has sententiously announced: "Success is its own failure...
...Christmas. Unlike parolees, the live-out prisoners have their rent subsidized by the state, the goal being to ease the transition to civilian life for cons with good records. It is the pet project of Swedish Prisons General Director Torsten Eriksson, who so far has every reason to expect success. This summer he sent ten prisoners off for three weeks of fishing, swimming and hiking in a small mountain resort. Everyone liked that so much that there was not one attempt to escape...
...economy theme is just as pronounced in the Javelin ads. Aimed at the burgeoning youth market, they tackle Ford's successful Mustang head-on with the pitch that the Javelin, while similarly priced (about $2,500), offers such values as contour bumpers, bigger engines and more leg room. To dramatize the car's jumbo gas tank (19 gallons v. the Mustang's 16), one television commercial shows a gang of toughs-"Hey hood, look at the hood!" their leader shouts-siphoning petrol from a parked Javelin. A magazine ad goes even further in highlighting the Javelin...