Word: successful
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...court helps more than 4,000 volunteer couples a year, gets 60% of them to make up and sign detailed "husband-wife" agreements that have the force of law. "Divorce courts throughout America are burying marriages that are still alive," says Meyer Elkin, Pfaff's supervising counselor. The success of conciliation courts proves that it is perfectly possible to create a rational divorce system that saves as well as severs-if the U.S. wants...
Ludwig Erhard, who turned 69 last week, has neither skill nor stomach for back-room politics, relies instead on his formidable success as a university-trained economist to hold the favor of West German voters. Now, however, he is caught in a dreadful dilemma: he may have to take up Parteipolitik in self-defense...
Venturi entered the Mayo Clinic, where surgeons sliced through the ligaments on the backs of both hands to free his pinched nerves. On the strength of his showing last week, the operation was a success. He had to wear gloves on both hands between shots and use hand warmers besides, but he fired an eleven-under-par 273 to win the Lucky by one stroke and collect his first winner's check-$8,500-in almost two years. "It's nice," he said, "to be back among the players...
...other hand, the Administration is pursuing the second policy objective -- forcing Hanoi to the table with military strength in the hopes of negotiating a Saigon-dominated coalition government--the costs will be nearly as unthinkable and the prospects for success equally dim. Underlying this strategy is the assumption that Hanoi offered no response to the peace offensive because of their superior position in the South; the United States must change the military balance of power in its favor to bring about negotiations...
Although the Administration devoted a very large portion of the Honolulu conference to this central problem, the success of Premier Ky's rural pacification plans remains doubtful. According to Mohr, "after five years of war, the allies are starting from scratch in this field, and that progress must be slow." The allies will have to destroy the Viet Cong's powerful political organization before they can begin to build a viable political structure, and to date they have never ventured into areas under heavy Communist influence which comprise the largest part of South Vietnam...