Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home Ford pointed with pride to his success in trimming the inflation rate from 12.2% when he took office to a current 5%. Though he acknowledged that unemployment remained too high, he noted that 4 million more people were at work now than in the spring...
...ever a Briton was born and bred for success, it was Eden. The third son of Sybil and Sir William Eden, a country gentleman and master of hounds, Anthony Eden had a perfect pedigree for membership in the British ruling class: Sandroyd Preparatory School, Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he won first-class honors in Persian and Arabic and pulled a respectable oar. Before entering Oxford, young Anthony saw action in France with the King's Royal Rifle Corps during the first World War; at the age of 20 he became a brigade major...
...typical January night, they found no crime more serious than some double-parking by guests at a party at the Indonesian consulate. In fact, during the Grebmeiers' first four months on the job, their clients have suffered only three minor break-ins. They consider that a success for law-and-order...
Despite strong disagreements with her perspective, concentrators have attempted to work with Southern, but those efforts have met with more frustration than success. After initially refusing to meet with concentrators, she finally did agree, and initial contact was made. Whatever relationship could have developed, however, was eroded by repeated displays of bad faith on Southern's part. Meetings with students were cancelled at the last minute without explanation or notification. Proposals rejected by faculty and students were re-introduced by Southern time after time until they were passed. Agreements reached between students and Southern were conveniently "forgotten" or "misunderstood...
Safer bets are MacArthur and A BridgeToo Far. MacArthur will attempt to repeat the success of Patton by island-hopping across the Pacific with the imperious five-star general. Gregory Peck, who plays the lead, studied old newsreels to catch MacArthur's flamboyance and even shaved the crown of his head to match the general's little bald spot...