Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also to take into account long ignored social needs...It would be a rare person today who would question the value of stretching the criteria for admission, and of trying to make up for earlier educational disadvantages, to help disadvantaged groups...Medical faculties can derive deep satisfaction from their success in recruiting and helping many able students from groups that were formerly excluded...Considerations of tact and guilt over our history of enormous racial injustice have made it difficult to face the problem. But there are dangers in a policy that fails to evaluate the results of our recent experiments...
...very sorry that statements quoted in the press may have led minority students to believe that I have been criticizing their performance as a group. I trust the original document will make clear my recognition of the fundamental success of minority programs in medical schools, and my concern for ensuring good medical care for all segments of society...
...nine parts; he exercised his peripheral vision by identifying trees across the street while walking along looking straight ahead; he went through the five phases of his foul shot a thousand times a day. Behind all this lay the key, the three D's; Determination, Dedication, and Defense, because success is 1 per cent innpiration and 99 per cent perspiration. One can imagine streetball players bent double, clapping their Chuck Taylors in laughter if they ever heard of or read it, but of course they never...
Here was the old success story, notwithstanding a good measure of social irony: Horatio Alger reincarnated in a tall but otherwise physically mediocre, white boy from Crystal City, Missouri, triumphs in a black, city game played by the likes of Wilt Chamberlain. The religio-scientific devotion of the American athletic dream dug in and hurled the banker's son into collegiate, international, and eventually professional stardom. Bill Bradley knew where he was, and his stature was reaffirmed by approving nods from righteous heads across the country...
Every month, Psychology Today (circ. 1.1 million) tells Americans all they might want to know about sex, psychosurgery, biofeedback, insomnia, ultradian rhythms-indeed the whole galaxy of behavioral phenomena, from alienation to Zen. The magazine's success is due largely to its editor in chief and resident visionary since 1969, T (for nothing) George Harris. He turned a jargon-pocked and profitless publication into a Popular Mechanics of human behavior-eminently readable, visually stimulating and worth more than $2 million a year in net profit for its present owner, Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., which bought the magazine...