Word: successful
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...explanation: education. Jews had 14 years' schooling and Catholics 12.5 years, ahead of the national average of 11.1 years for all whites. "Overthrust" is what Father Greeley calls phenomenon, wondering whether striving groups do well "because of the sheer raw power of their elemental drive for respectability and success...
...stronger, more confident, more practical China will presumably be an easier China for Kissinger to talk to. Nonetheless, he will have to navigate several trouble spots before he can call his journey a success. A major difficulty, paradoxically, is Chinese fear of the Soviet Union, the very factor that brought the U.S. and China together in the first place. Seldom has the Sino-Soviet dispute been so heated. Believing that detente has made the Soviets stronger, Peking has heaped vitriol and ridicule on any move to lessen East-West tension. Kissinger's concern for detente has affected his standing...
McClelland said yesterday that even though he is not sure how his study measures fear of success, he is certain of his results, which corroborate the Horner thesis...
When asked yesterday why the part of the report dealing with women's fear of success was made public, while the rest remained secret, McClelland said, "Women are oppressed because undergraduate men are pigs. We have to publicize this, and to let faculty, administrators and students see that they're acting terribly...
Critics of the fear-of-success theory say that women do not avoid success, but rather failure. The McClelland and Horner thesis, they say, is inexact in distinguishing the difference...