Word: successful
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...seldom recognized by today's black students that the small number of blacks at top-rank white schools before the 1960s was extremely skillful at exploiting the unique success-patterns at these institutions...
...were there, for example, more than 20 blacks Harvard in any given year during that era. A more fundamental difference, however, was that the small numbers precluded a pattern of all-black peer relationships and pressures. Each black student was forced, therefore, to navigate the unique achievement norms and success-patterns without the intervention of black solidarity agencies and attitudes...
What's all the fuss about Jimmy Carter's "personal" success and "personal" achievement in the Camp David talks? It was not his spiritual faculties but the immense economic and military power of the U.S. that enabled the President to put pressure on Israel and Egypt and bring about some promising results. The summit was destined not to fail: What would Israel be without U.S. support...
Hispanic leaders were upset by recent announcements of more stringent entrance requirements for the University of California. They also fear that the Supreme Court's decision in the Allan Bakke case will work against their admission to U.S. universities. Meanwhile, chicanos deeply resent the success of black colleges and universities in getting federal aid. Says Los Angeles School Board Member Julian Nava: "There are 120 black [U.S.] colleges and universities receiving multimillion-dollar subsidies from Congress, but there isn't a single, goddamned Mexican-American institution of higher education." Actually, there are five-all small, struggling colleges...
...stay on in Lebanon, Iraq's radical regime offered last week to send its own troops to the Golan Heights. Assad, who has quarreled bitterly with the Iraqis, was bound to reject their dubious offer. His determination to solve his Lebanese dilemma was probably hardened by the success of the Camp David peace talks, which foreshadowed a separate peace between Egypt and Israel. Such a development would leave Israel free to concentrate its massive firepower on Syria and other "rejectionist" Arab states...