Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lists were Ambassador to Great Britain Anne Armstrong, 48, and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Carla Hills, 42. Commerce Secretary Elliot Richardson, 56, would deflect most Watergate-related attacks by virtue of his Saturday Night Massacre heroics. Treasury Secretary William Simon, 48, would draw attention to Ford's success with the economy and is a strong manager. Besides, cracked a wag during a meeting with Ford: "Simon's perfect; he's a Catholic with a Jewish name...
Tanaka's success was built on what the Japanese call kinken-money power, meaning jobs, contracts and very often raw cash liberally applied to advance political aims. Money has always played a key role in Japanese politics; Tanaka, a horse trader's son who lacked both the prestigious education and family connections usually necessary for a big-time political career, needed it more than most. But when, in the past few years, a recession at home and the example of Watergate abroad made the Japanese more sensitive to the private morals of their public leaders, Tanaka...
Character Grades. Success at Hyde is measured largely by "character growth" rather than academic excellence. Students are given two sets of grades: one for performance in a traditional curriculum laden with remedial courses; the other, which is considered more important, for overcoming personal problems such as being shy or cowardly, as shown in survival tests the school has copied from Outward Bound. The grades in character development are hammered out in a kind of encounter group, where classmates and teachers urge a student to confess his strengths and weaknesses. In similar sessions, teachers are evaluated publicly by the students...
...increasing use of medical technology, while markedly enhancing accuracy of diagnosis and success of treatment, was accompanied by less time spent with patients. Complaints about the dehumanizing of medical care were increasingly heard. Doctors moved their offices close to the hospital and its technology. By the 1950s the house call had virtually vanished as doctor and patient met in the emergency wards and clinics of urban teaching hospitals or in offices next door...
...plots in The Canfield Decision and The Company are stellar examples of the key to popular success. They're simple, sensational, they contain little moral complexity and the narrative is one easy, continuous flow...