Word: successful
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...foreign policy, the achievement of the SALT II agreement, the solution to the problems of the Middle East and the resolution of controversy in southern Africa. On the domestic scene, I wish that I could turn a switch and achieve a healthy economy with more success against inflation and more progress against unemployment. Unfortunately, a President doesn't have that capability. It takes time...
Tarkenton's extraordinary records, his longevity and hardiness-he has missed but one game because of injury-his utter command of the 100-yd.-long environment of football and his success outside the game would seem to leave him with few challenges. But there remains a restlessness in him, a relentless drive. "The problem I have with life," Tarkenton has written in his autobiography, "is that I have more things I want to do than I have time to do. I'm talking about a deep involvement. You can get it on the football field, of course...
Thus sale of part of the government's interest probably will make little or no difference in the way BP operates. Why, then, is the left wing so angry? Because the sale violates socialist ideology, which calls for the nationalization of more, not less, of British industry. The relative success of BP also dramatizes the value of letting proficient managers alone. Any attention focused on BP inevitably brings to mind the contrasting inefficiency of businesses controlled by the government in fact as well as name, such as the National Coal Board and the British Steel Corp...
...driving force behind Radio Shack's success is Tandy Corp.'s chairman and president Charles D. Tandy, 58, a Texan who attended Harvard Business School, sold war bonds while serving in the Navy, then went into the family leather-goods business at the end of World War II. He bought the small Boston-based Radio Shack chain 13 years ago, when it was $1.5 million in debt...
...note of relief in University officials' voices Sunday night when they talked about the success of their moderate vacation heating policy was almost audible...