Word: successful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...winter of 1970. The government of Sierra Leone claimed at the time that a state of emergency warranted Karefa-Smart's imprisonment, but he was in tact detained for political reasons. Echoing Bitar and Litvinov, he cites Amnesty's apolitical nature as one of the keys to its success. "Amnesty is definitely helping the many political prisoners who are still in Sierra Leone," he says...
Americans have always had a certain Manichaean attitude toward other nations-and indeed toward life itself. There was light and darkness, good and evil, success or failure-and no other choices, even within ourselves. The whole trend of American history and character has made us believe that an individual can be anything he aspires to be (can "go to heaven if he wants to"). That is a heady belief until he fails; then failure is all the more bitter because it is his own fault. The nation as a whole can do anything it aspires to, including transcend history...
These latest developments in the Sinai talks, which have swayed from the verge of success to the edge of collapse since Kissinger's shuttle talks deadlocked last March, elicited both optimism and pessimism. The optimists for the most part were American. One U.S. policy expert rated the odds at "better than even" that the Israeli Cabinet could come up with suitable concessions for Egyptian President Anwar Sadat that would be palatable at home as well as abroad. If it did, said the expert, the second-stage disengagement could be wrapped up easily...
...album Snowflakes are Dancing (electronic versions of Debussy piano pieces) has passed the 200,000 mark. Three months ago, RCA came out with Tomita's second album of synthesized sound: Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. It has already sold more than 100,000 copies, a success partly attributable to a mammoth marketing campaign by RCA. Last week the album was not only No. 1 on one classical chart but had also worked its way into the pop top 50 and even onto the jazz chart of the trade magazine Record World...
Communist nations have paid the market the ultimate compliment by trying to introduce elements of market pricing into their own economies, so far with meager success. The trademarks of Communist economies remain indelible: low productivity, shortages of goods, lengthy queues in stores, years-long waits for apartments. In order to spur initiative, most Communist countries also have huge and growing differences in real income (and perquisites) between commissar and collective farmer. Nikita Khrushchev once replied to a charge that the Soviet Union was going capitalist: "Call it what you will, incentives are the only way to make people work harder...