Word: successful
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Confidence that moderation may prevail in China is inspired by the success of a number of policies favored by Chou and carried out by Teng. China's trade deficit of more than $1 billion in 1974 was significantly reduced last year by cutting back on foreign imports. Meanwhile agricultural policy, as managed by Teng, has produced happy results: there has been a highly creditable 7% annual increase in grain production since 1972. Steel output has also risen by an impressive 10% a year since 1971, while oil output last year was about 25% higher than in 1974. So long...
...approach doesn't work. You can't--even if you're Kubrick--tell a three-hour tale of adventure and a struggle to regain an inheritance without characterization. And you can't make a picaresque film with next to no action. Very little happens in Barry Lyndon. Kubrick's success in 2001 seems to have convinced him that playing the camera lovingly over a tableaux while playing highbrow music on the soundtrack is a substitute for thought and action. Kubrick's sets are at first startling--the lush green beauty of Irish hills and loughs; the crazy-quilt pattern...
...Winning the shirt made me feel great. Last year I entered the same tournament and got clobbered," Lewis said yesterday. Despite his success, however, Lewis plans to exchange Scrabble this term for a spot in "Scoop" Jackson's campaign organization...
...compromising situation. He left to hide in the woods. Mary Jo, unfamiliar with the car, tried to turn around and lost control, driving off the bridge. The horrified Kennedy and his cousin and Markham, who by this time had joined him, desperately attempted to rescue the trapped girl, without success. Convinced she was dead, the three decided to "stone-wall" the accident: they would tell the people at the party that Mary Jo had left by herself to take the Edgartown ferry. Gargan and Markham returned to the cottage, Kennedy swam to Edgartown. In the morning, if all went...
...Success is becoming a believable goal in the Radcliffe Athletic Office. Hard work and a winning attitude have helped the women move toward victory; they should continue their winning trend throughout the winter...