Word: successful
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...goal of bringing such unjust registration procedures to national attention, however, King's drive was a success. In this, King was helped considerably by the clumsy antics of Sheriff Clark. Last week the 220-lb. Clark tangled violently along the courthouse waiting line with Mrs. Annie Lee Cooper, a 226-lb. aspiring registrant. Mrs. Cooper twice walloped Clark solidly and appeared to be outpointing him until three burly deputies came to his aid. While the deputies pinned her to the ground, Clark belabored her with his billy club...
...judge's uncompromising answer testified to the plaintiff's success. "Education is tax supported and compulsory," said Sweeney. "Public school educators, therefore, must deal with inadequacies within the educational system as they arise, and it matters not that the inadequacies are not of their making. This is not to imply that the neighborhood-school policy per se is unconstitutional, but that it must be abandoned or modified when it results in segregation in fact...
...charges them interest at an annual rate of 6% (Diners' Club and Carte Blanche, which started later, charge 9½% , and have made a major departure from their usual billing procedures by giving air travelers up to two years to pay for trips). The idea's immediate success helped American Express pass Diners' Club in U.S. membership last year for the first time-1,200,000 to 1,000,000. Diners' now reckons that its own airline business will ultimately exceed its restaurant volume...
...that an honor grade in organic chemistry leaves a pleasant taste in their mouths. (Although one doctor claims that "A" students in organic "worry" him, unfortunately he is an exception). These committees, however, are no more titillated by an honors performance in this subject than they are by similar success in any other moderately challenging science course...
Furthermore, concerning any statistics about the relative success of science and non-science majors, each case is scrutinized so exhaustively on its own merits that these figures have no effect on any individual decisions...