Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprise of some at Jimmy Carter's success has surprised me. Who else has caught the present emotional climate? We have been through Watergate, Elizabeth Ray and disillusionment with the old-time Washington crowd and, fairly or not, the Republican Party. Our hopes are with the American Dream, which Carter appears to personify. Although we may not know the man, we feel we know the symbol...
...large, the Cuban refugees have worked diligently, helped one another, and achieved a booming economic success in the center of Miami. They now own or control an estimated 8,000 businesses and have a spending power of $1.5 billion. Many of them have been unable to re-create their old lives, however. Alfredo Perez, for example, went to law school in Havana, but after fleeing to Colombia, then to Puerto Rico, he arrived penniless and discouraged in Miami in 1967. The need for Cuban-trained lawyers in Miami being totally nonexistent, Perez finally got a job mowing lawns...
...dreamed that if I came to this country, I could make enough money to live on," says Lee, who now has a Korean wife and two children, "but I never dreamed of this much success. I expected little freedom for jobs or work in America, but that is not the way it is. We have freedom to work hard and do well here. If I work one hour, I get one hour's profit from it. It's not that way in other countries...
...With success at their back, the Britannica's proprietors now want to produce a new edition. Major articles are to be vastly expanded, a substantial amount of history added. Most radically, there will be an account of the lives of the most eminent persons from the earliest ages down to the present tunes...
...achievement: "I wrote most of it, my lad, and snipped out from books enough material for the printer. With pastepot and scissors I composed it." But as of now, Editor Smellie is finished at the Britannica. Because of the encyclopedia's success, both in Britain and the Colonies, the owners wanted all three volumes expanded according to a plan with which he disagreed. He refused; the publishers insisted; he bowed...