Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, with four to six weeks of public debate ahead, the success of the Administration's carefully crafted strategy on the treaties remains in doubt. The plan has been to proceed in stages: first Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd and then Minority Leader Howard Baker were to endorse the treaties after well-publicized visits to Panama; then they were to bring the treaties to the Senate floor, where individual Senators would be allowed to appease critics at home by amending the pact with an "understanding" clarifying the U.S. right to intervene to protect the canal's neutrality after...
...have a hunch how some of the mistakes occurred. If I may resort to the reconstructed quotation technique everyone seems to be using with such financial success these days, it "probably" went something like this...
...kind of instant success a film like An Unmarried Woman can bring has been slow in arriving, and in between those disasters were years of hard work. Though Clayburgh, now 33, likes to think that she just wandered aimlessly through her high school and college years, her father, Albert Clayburgh, a rich Manhattan businessman, tells a different story. "Jill was driven," he says, "always taking singing, dancing and acting lessons. The thing I remember most is her determination and ambition...
...ridiculous. One has to go to Minnesota, the other to Detroit. Your problems are different, and neither has patience to listen to the other. Thank God we broke up! We were all wrong for each other. I didn't even know who I was." Pacino's quick success was also a problem, and Clayburgh remembers with some bitterness that reporters would sometimes interview her just...
Some have predicted punk's demise when monied success befalls the street rockers. But Joe Incagnoli doesn't think punks can be commercialized. Punk is much more than punk rock; it is lived by real people, not fabricated for sale. "Look where punk is coming from--who's going to listen to it? It's not really an age group, it's a culture...