Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FIVE YEARS AGO today Pinochet's military stormed the presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, to depose and murder Salvador Allende Gossens. Five years ago today Nixon and Kissinger chortled over the success of their best-laid plans to foment the coup, to "make the economy scream" in Chile, to make the world safe for democracy...
Perhaps you can attribute Brown's success to the fact that though he respects Harvard, he has never really been in awe of the school, academically or athletically...
Brown's aforementioned baseball success that spring led Harvard to the District One playoffs and earned him a spot as a third team All-American. It was by far his best season, one which he credits to his football experience of the fall...
Finally, the unions have again been victimized by their own success: the high wages that they have won have created a bourgeoisie whose members are more concerned about their taxes than about their unions' legislative goals. In California, blue-collar unionized homeowners last June voted overwhelmingly for Proposition 13, in full knowledge that the 57% cut in property taxes that it called for would wipe out the jobs of many of their brother unionists working in local governments...
...film is one of the oddest success stories of 1978. Though Jack and Bonita Wrather had wanted to make a new Lassie movie for some time, they were daunted by the fact that in recent years most so-called family pictures have done rather poorly at the box office. Moreover, since Lassie Come Home was released in 1943, there have been eight sequels, not to mention the TV series that ended only five years ago. Most people in Hollywood thought the public had seen enough of that particular collie...