Word: successful
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...British colonization was a Pyrrhic success. To a great extent, British policy failed in Ireland and continues to fail in Northern Ireland. To be specific, it is the English who have failed. As a nation, they have never understood "those impossible people," the Irish, nor truly cared to, and the Irish dislike of the English is legendary. At every turn of English policy towards Ireland--with Essex, with Cromwell, with the 'black and tans' (infamous British in the war of independence)--there is ceaseless bloodshed, rebellion and repression...
...Aboard Wischnewski's 707-code-named Oscar X Ray-were 31 additional troops of G.S.G. 9 as well as the unit's commander, Ulrich Wegener. At dawn Saturday, Wischnewski reached Dubai and went to the control tower to talk with the hijackers by radio; he had no success...
...profession-I understand the special problems of the business community. And in the tax-reform package we hope to stimulate our economy to some degree, provide easier accumulation of capital for increased investment. And I think that these two basic premises of the tax-reform package, combined with success in the energy field, will be a great step toward restoring, or at least establishing, increased confidence...
...most businesses success or failure is measured in years. In TV the message can be delivered overnight-and almost certainly within the first month or two of a new season. Last week, just five weeks into the fall season, CBS gave its own unhappy assessment: TV's new year has brought it disaster. CBS-until last year the undisputed leader for two decades-was in third place in the ratings, miles behind ABC and irritating inches behind...
Goldman's project may be unable to do anything about that, but it has already scored its first notable success. Following a protest from N.S.P., Oakland television station KTVU stopped showing Porky Pig cartoons. That's all, folks...