Word: successful
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During Freshman Week the Crimson Key Society also held a disco dance and clinic for the incoming students. Organizer Susan Kisch '80 said "It was an absolute success--people had a blast...
People often lose in competitive sports, as people often lose in life. Competitive sports provide an excellent way of learning to accept and cope with failure, as well as to experience success...
...discouraging setbacks, a steady decline in the polls and increasingly open disdain from members of his own party, the President was exuberantly on the move, roving from New Jersey to the Carolinas to the Middle West. Everywhere he went, crowds turned out and cheered him for his historic success at the Middle East summit talks at Camp David, and those ringing cheers were backed up by new polls that showed him making dramatic gains in the past week. According to a CBS survey, popular approval of his Administration climbed from 38% in June to 51% last week, while a Gallup...
Buoyed by his success, Carter went out politicking with renewed zest. The mood of the crowds in North and South Carolina was so cordial that the President barely had to mention Camp David. He could count on someone else doing that for him. The most surprising example was a large ad in the Asheville (N.C.) Times that congratulated Carter for the Middle East breakthrough and concluded: "I am proud of you." The ad was paid for by Democrats who are supporting Republican Senator Jesse Helms for re-election even though Carter had come to the state to campaign for Helms...
Though the Middle East agreement creates an aura of success around the President, it does not by any means solve all his problems. Last week revised figures showed that the inflation rate in the second quarter of 1978 was a grim 11%. Despite the good news in the Middle East, the dollar continued to fall, reaching an alltime low of 1.51 Swiss francs. The dollar has now fallen about 37% against the Swiss franc in a single year. The price of gold rose to a record high of $216 per oz. Carter met with his top economic advisers last week...