Word: successful
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...Harvard finally wrote an affirmative action plan and included some tenants in drawing its plans for expansion, nobody noticed. It makes a lot of sense, really, that students didn't regard all these things as great victories. All of them happened well after students had quieted down; worse, the success of some of the more immediate causes of the sixties and the demise of some of the more obvious villians only made it clear, to those who still cared, how little immediate causes and obvious villians are at the root of what is wrong. The United States government still allies...
...case of Democratic Senator Birch Bayh illustrates how a candidate's chances for success in 1976 can be shaped by the new rules on fund raising. "The thing we were watching the court for," says Bayh's finance director, Myer Feldman, "the thing that would have changed the entire nature of the campaign, was a ruling that would have lifted the limit on contributions. It's that $1,000 limit that has caused the problems...
...ambassador also had to know that the cable would further antagonize Kissinger. Within the State Department, it was widely seen as self-serving. Said one observer, invoking a Norman Mailer book: "It should have been called Advertisements for Myself" Department officials feel Moynihan overstated his success in getting African nations to respond to his pressure. The indiscreet naming of specific nations and specific leaders* may have actually hampered the policy Moynihan advocates. U.N. watchers note, for example, that with Moynihan slated to assume the presidency of the Security Council this week, on its regular monthly rotation, a number of Third...
...Crimson fields teams in all three types of fencing--saber, foil and epee--but has had particular success with its foil squad...
Hall has had more success with his flash card security system at Eliot House, and his Delta 2000 program...