Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...author said that women have had an easier struggle for success in the working world than men because men first opened the pathways in most professions...
Stevens filled Mitchell's and Brown's vacated seats with a senior partner in a southern law firm and a president of a small southern college. Rogers claims the appointments are a sign of the success of the corporate campaign. Corporate leaders are increasingly reluctant to be associated with Stevens, he asserts. In fact, Rogers says the major reason Man Hanny accepted the resignations of Finley and Mitchell was not because it feared the loss of over $1 billion in labor pension funds, but rather because it feared its reputation would be tarnished if it were publicly linked with...
...major tests used by schools, employers and the armed forces are very accurate in predicting future success or failure for native-born English-speaking Americans...
With the birth of LIFE in 1936, Larsen returned to magazines. For ten years he presided over the picture weekly's extraordinary success. In 1938, when the magazine published explicit photographs of childbirth. Larsen went to the office of a Bronx assistant district attorney and ceremoniously sold a copy to a detective; the D.A. charged Larsen with selling an obscene publication. The incident brought national publicity to LIFE and a test case involving the First Amendment's free-press guarantee. Larsen was acquitted...
...board of the Nature Conservancy, which acquires and manages wild lands throughout the U.S., and he organized the Nantucket Conservation Foundation, a group that solicits donations of open land on Nantucket Island to keep it out of the hands of developers. The organization is a typical Larsen success. It now controls 17% of the island-and through the acquisition of productive cranberry bogs, it even turned a profit last year...