Word: successful
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...feminist who thinks equal access is the answer is overlooking a few things. First of all, any admissions policy, no matter how "equal," depends on the people who are doing the admitting, and if those people continue to apply male criteria of success--looking for football players, student council presidents, etc.--they will continue to choose men over women. And at the moment, Radcliffe's applicant pool is less than half the size of Harvard's. Another problem is that there is a large and powerful group of Harvard alumni who are adamantly opposed to lowering the number...
...Modern Army. The moderates' success in Hangchow is convincing evidence of their strong position as China prepares for the passing of Mao, 81, and the older generation of revolutionary leaders. Many China watchers believe the moderates are already revising or even abandoning some of Mao's precepts. One recent instance of this was the rehabilitation of the former Armed Forces Chief of Staff, General Lo Jui-ching, 69. As one of the initial victims of the Cultural Revolution, Lo was publicly humiliated by fanatic young Red Guards as far back as 1966. He was notorious in those days...
...million show tailor-made for national TV survive rejection by all three networks and win success anyway? The Independent Television Corp., the producer of Space: 1999, has few doubts that its elaborate new science-fiction adventure series can do just that. This fall it will be aired over local stations in the ten top television markets and in 136 other cities around the country. With confidence bordering on brashness, I.T.C. predicts that it is giving the networks their biggest ever prime-time challenge and in the process producing the season's first...
...five percent of the U.S. stations planning to air Space are affiliates of the networks. Most of them are scheduling it in prime time, pre-empting such new shows as The Invisible Man, Fay and Phyllis and established hits like Rhoda, Cher and Sanford and Son. Space's success could not only bite deeply into the audience ratings for network shows, but perhaps even sink a couple in the first few critical weeks...
...Puritan Leader John Winthrop's ship neared the Massachusetts coast, "there came a smell offshore like the smell of a garden." The garden-like fragrance of herbs still hangs on the New England air, and with it the sweet smell of commercial success. Indeed, Americans' fascination with herbs-plants valued for specific medicinal, culinary or aromatic uses-has grown so fast in recent years that the demand for herb plants and seeds has wafted to every corner of the country. Dried and fresh herbs, used for millenniums in teas, elixirs, salves and perfumes to spice food and please...