Word: successful
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...iron and steel-or computers and rockets-the outward manifestations of national power. They were preoccupied with the inner nation. Does it still contain the iron and steel of character necessary to maintain the American enterprise? Many fear that the U.S. has been fatally weakened by its material success. It is certainly possible to find signs of satiety, decadence and disorder. But the evidence points more strongly to a new optimism, and to an occasionally grim determination to be harder on ourselves, clearly underlined by the Supreme Court's ruling upholding the death penalty...
According to Harry Mezer, assistant district attorney for Middlesex County, the success of the motions for dismissal of the charges against the robbery suspects hinges on the degree of cooperation between Richards, Palmer...
...money, status and jobs and therefore are perhaps not as concerned about one another as they should be." Still, he recognizes that such rivalry enabled the U.S. to progress. "As Franklin said, you work real hard, and you are just a little bit better, and you're a success in business...
...American spirit is deeply divided about money. In one sense the faith in money is pure: it need not, as it does in so many older societies, apologize for its existence. Money is what it is-good in its own right, a sign of success, if perhaps no longer of divine grace. Yet this view is at war with an older tradition from which, even in a country that slights history, the imagination is never quite free: whether in the Bible or in fairy tales or in great works of fiction, money is held in contempt. The great callings...
...success of group invention does not mean that the lone tinkerer is extinct. Enormous obstacles-financial, administrative, legal-face the inventor who wants to set up a laboratory in a closet and create new concepts and gadgets. Still, the classic garret inventor has managed to survive. Edwin Link, inventor of the famed "Link trainer" for instrument flight, has managed to move out of aviation and into oceanography, and now explores the underwater world in a clear, bubble-shaped plastic submarine of his own design. William Lear, who has invented radios, airplanes and steam-powered vehicles, is now working with...