Word: successful
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Somehow, in spite of environmentalists' success in blocking the resort, Mineral King's transition from an issue pushed by public pressure to one backed by legal maneuvering is discouraging. Of course the controversy has had its good moments: for one, the Disney Corporation has learned its lesson, is letting the Forest Service handle the project, and is concentrating on its plans for a resort near Lake Tahoe with the advice of the Sierra Club...
After the success of Berkeley's radical students, a Cambridge City Council candidate took out an ad before the Cambridge elections cautioning the city's residents, "Could Cambridge be another Berkeley [sic]? Don't wait to find out! Restore Cambridge and its government to its residents, not its visitors." That candidate may have had something to fear from a student bloc like that one four years ago in Berkeley; he has little to fear, however, from the student vote today in Cambridge. Students here, for reasons that extend far beyond voting restrictions, have never been a major force in this...
...Bebe Rebozo, John Connally, and Walter Annenburg--are all from that peculiar class of men with new money made outside the Eastern establishment. They cling to what Gary Wills in Nixon Agonistes called "the iron morality of the rails", the conviction that through hard work, unimpeded by traditional ethics, success achieved...
...issue new shares of stock of a national union council. The stock would correspond to a fixed percentage of company profits (Meidner suggests 10 to 30 per cent). The dividends would be used for the purchase of additional stock and to finance the educational programs necessary for the success of the attack on managerial prerogatives (workers' education in health, safety, accounting, finance...
According to the McInally scenario for pro football success, this is his rebuilding year. "It's given me a lot of time to mature and adjust, and I'm making the most of it," he says. "There's a great possibility I'm not ready for pro football, as I wasn't ready for college football when I was a sophomore...