Word: successful
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Some city agencies can be abolished in their entirety or shifted to state management. Among them: the addiction services agency, which duplicates state services and has a questionable record of success...
...result, Chicago has escaped many of the financial problems of other cities. In fact, because new taxes on payrolls and cigarettes raised $50 million in additional revenue, Chicago was able to cut its property taxes by 10% in the past four years. But the Second City's fiscal success is also due partly to the fact that many of its public expenses are paid by independent authorities or the county or state. For example, the city government spends nothing on schools, which are operated by an independent board that has a budget of $1.16 billion ($60 million larger than...
...realize this fantasy through her camera and her actors, inextricably involving the audience with her characters. Wertmuller has said that she makes political films to reach a mass audience, by which she presumably means the working class. If Swept Away does reach a mass audience, as its current success suggests it may, no working class viewer will recognize its political intentions. He will only see a great love story reaffirming sexist roles, and in so doing he will not misread Wertmuller's true feelings...
...chief psychologist of the Massachusetts Center for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Sexually Dan gerous Persons. But he sees the core defect as "a sense of emptiness-of being nothing, and therefore having no regard for himself or for others. When you don't have anything else-job success, friend ship, family ties-your last resort for creating your own identity is sexual aggression...
Some women report success in engaging the rapist in calm conversation...