Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...balance, Carter could probably look back on the troubled week as one of more gains than losses. But whether the treaty success augured a turnaround in the declining fortunes of the Carter Administration seemed questionable...
...have. But his mind has expanded, his outer edges softened and modulated. He is part insider and part outsider now, a man with a better feel of the power he has, but one startled by the power he does not have. He is still searching for his formula for success, told by many he is failing but convinced he is on the edge of comprehension and the beginning of a journey upward...
...cost of about $21 million; some of the helicopters were used to spray herbicides from a few feet above the ground. Others served as gun ships, hovering above to shoot it out with the peasants who took up arms to defend their crop. The program was a great success. In 1977 about 22,000 acres of poppies and 9,500 acres of marijuana plants were destroyed by the spraying in Mexico...
...basic goal of modem urban terrorists is to provoke a repressive response from governments, and thereby alienate the populace, or, if the government does nothing, to underscore its ineffectiveness. Repressive measures become tempting only as terrorism grows in frequency and scale through success. Thus experts argue that one way to control terrorism-eliminating it entirely would appear to be impossible-is for a government to declare a strong, stated policy of how it will respond to terrorism, and then, when it occurs, move swiftly, firmly and with the confidence of its people...
Unfortunately, this business success--one study found 90 per cent of Kingston, Jamaica mothers were bottle feeding their children--has been a nutritional disaster for infants in poor countries where the proper facilities and adequate understanding necessary for correct preparation of the formula do not exist. Often formulas marketed in the industrialized nations come in pre-mixed liquid form, but the vast majority of those sold overseas are powders which require the addition of water. In many underdeveloped areas, no clean water is available--so sewage -fouled and bacteria-infested water ends up being fed to babies. In addition, many...