Word: successful
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...sees his role as that of a catalyst through which a national consensus may develop. Toward that end he will continue to urge such diverse elements in the nation as business and labor, liberals and conservatives, to "reason together"-a technique that has largely accounted for his longtime political success...
Ford has widespread support among House Republicans, but his success against Halleck is by no means assured. Charlie has been around for a long while, has in his possession a lot of political lOUs, and will certainly not hesitate to call them in. Last week, before Ford announced his candidacy, the House Republican Conference met, fully expecting Halleck to come out swinging against any imminent threat to his leadership. But Charlie sweet-talked the dissidents about party harmony, to the point that one of them, Massachusetts' Silvio Conte, told reporters, "It's as peaceful in there as Miss...
...shows, so its loss is not entirely without honor; but where the profits show, in the overall sampling of the total mass of people who watch a given network during a given minute, CBS has lost millions of fans. CBS-TV President James T. Aubrey Jr. has built his success on cold formula: quality be damned, programs either score high ratings or drop out. It would follow that the same criterion might apply to a TV president who lives by such a formula, and rumors are all over the industry that Aubrey's own rating is down...
...Kennedy in 1961. Instead of asking for full presidential power to act, as Kennedy did, Johnson has in mind a plan by which the President would only propose a temporary cut, leaving Congress with the power to act upon it. The Government's economists feel that the quick success of the 1964 tax cut, plus Congress' recent tolerance of budget deficits, makes the acceptance of such a proposal "very likely...
...anti-poll tax bill, housing and minimum wage acts, the bill establishing the National Science Foundation, Alaska and Hawaii statehood measures, and several other bills were called to the floor. The threat of the rule forced the committee to act by itself on other occasions. But the rule s success was its downfall; when the Republican-Southern Democratic coalition came back into power in 1951, the 21-day rule was repealed immediately...