Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...construction was about to start, Walter Moving, chairman of the board of Tiffany's, and others, sued the city to prevent it, claiming a misuse of park land. For almost five years, they carried their case through the courts of New York State, with no success whatever. In 1965, when the cafe was again about to be built, Mayor Lindsay came into office. He at once appointed Walter Hoving's son Thomas as the new Parks Commissioner, and flatly turned down the cafe. Mr. Thomas Hoving then suggested to me that I give my money to the Bedford...
...onetime opera house. They were there to start the tedious task of building a nation out of the shards of war. Starched and spotless in his white dress uniform, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky solemnly listened to the strains of the Vietnamese national an them, then declared: "I wish you success and a constitution that will open an era democratic, progressive and prosperous for all the people." Nguyen Baluong, 65, the senior delegate and presiding officer for the Assembly's opening session, spoke for the delegates: "We must have a government that carries out the desires of the people...
There are many forces standing in the way of an overhaul of our criminal system -- fear, vested political interests, the lack of a natural lobby group for the success of the system, and a general distaste for most of those who are the customers of our agencies of justice. But the most powerful inhibiting factor -- and the one which reinforces the others -- is ignorance...
...police, for example, have virtually no measure of the success of steps they take to prevent crime. New York City recently invested an estimated 20 million dollars a year in subway guards, and the number of attacks on riders dropped sharply. People were indeed safer in the subways, but there was no way of knowing whether crime was reduced or just driven out of the subways into the streets, stores and homes. The investment may have been justified by the alleviation of people's great fear about riding the subways, but we should be clear that in terms of crime...
...prosecutors and judges are faced with the same lack of tools to measure the success of what they are trying to do. Each day in a municipal criminal court hundreds of decisions are made to drop some cases without prosecution, to accept pleas of guilty in other cases in return for relatively lenient sentences or probation, and to prosecute a few cases to the limit. While we are all warmed by the glow of Perry Mason's courtroom brilliance, it is, in fact, this informal and invisible negotiating and adjusting process -- and even more invisible police decision on whether...