Word: successful
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Expressing a "pessimistic view" about the success of Proposition 13, Martin S. Feldstein '61, professor of Economics, said Saturday the tax cut will force people to give up $1 in services to save 40 or 50 cents in taxes...
Restic summed up Harvard's offensive success on the day, which will prove tantamount to the team's success the rest of the way. "We know we're able to throw the ball," he said, "and we must make our passing game go before we start to run on teams. We can't run then pass and expect to win because we just don't have that power-type running game...
...IDEA FOR Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil is potentially no more idiotic than those which have fueled many successful Hollywood thrillers. A nasty Nazi doctor clones 94 infants from a graft of Hitler's skin, and plants his babies all over the world, trusting that in the correct environment at least a quarter of them will grow up to be fuhrers. It might have worked as satire of Hollywood, because these Nazis think like producers and studio-heads: Why bother to devise something new when cloning the old formula makes for a smashing success...
...Many of these important fossil discoveries have occured and are still occurring on the banks of Lake Turkana in Kenya, where a large team of workers at the Koobi Fora camp is making discoveries which trace human evolution back two and three million years. The head of the highly successful and productive Koobi Fora project is Richard E. Leakey, son of the world-famous prehistorians Louis and Mary Leakey. In light of the Koobi Fora project's success, Leakey has decided to present his findings to the rest of the world in the form of easy-to-read, fairly short...
Credit for the defense's success must go to Harvard coach Leo Fanning. "He really mixed up the defensive alignments so that Dartmouth didn't know what to throw at us," echoed numerous jubilant gridders afterwards...