Word: successful
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PETER, PAUL AND MARY: SEE WHAT TOMORROW BRINGS (Warner Bros.). Contrary to the prophecy of cynics, PP&M have stuck together in spite of marriages, babies and success. But, except for two songs that recall their former magic (The Rising of the Moon, Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?), their latest recording suggests that they have about played out their tune...
...newly elected Bundestag. The new society, said he, "is not created by one action, but unfolds through a process." It is already in formation, being the next stage of evolution beyond the "social market economy" created by Erhard's liberal postwar economic policies. Thanks to the success of these policies, "German society has lost the character of a class society," and has become "a society of achievement" instead. The challenge is how to utilize this new alignment...
When he heard that Luna 7 had successfully fired its braking retrorockets and had transmitted signals for three seconds after hitting the moon, Barringer became convinced that the craft was not demolished upon impact. The tardy retrorocket firing that probably made the difference between success and failure, Barringer decided, could have been caused by an altimeter error of as little as 30 ft. - which some scientists believe is the approximate depth of a layer of porous rock or partially compacted dust that covers the moon. Barringer's conclusion: Russian radar penetrated the moon's top layer, reflected back...
...Hoffman said: "I would like to take this opportunity to specifically disclaim any association with or responsibility by the Mayo Clinic for any of them." The best program for the person who is overweight, he added, is simply to eat less. "There is little if any evidence for the success of any method which does not restrict calorie intake to a level below body energy needs...
Violette Leduc is 58 and, by her own admission, illegitimate, ugly and homosexual. She has managed to put all these dubious assets to some use: she is a writer of autobiographies, of which La Bâtarde, her fifth, was a considerable success in existential circles. It is a success based not on wit, wisdom or literary grace but on the unpleasant pleasure many people find in watching someone else behave shamelessly. Violette Leduc, shameless to the point of masochism, confesses to her greed and petty thievery, her gluttony, her love of begging and pleading, her torturing of others...