Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Western society is the socio-economic phenomenon. The aspects of this problem are far graver than some have interpreted them to be. For the first time there are definite limitations to raw materials, especially energy. Beyond that, there are rising expectations, which are largely the product of our success in a market economy. These expectations are referred to as egalitarian economics, and they pose a dilemma for Western governments. If qualitative excellence has been abandoned in favor of an egalitarian approach, that is a built-in contradiction to a market economy...
...situation has changed dramatically and in a very exciting and satisfying way in these two years," said Democratic Senator Walter Mondale. Republican Senator Charles Mathias discerned "a feeling of institutional success and a feeling that Congress is meeting its constitutional obligations." Observed Republican Congressman Barber Conable: "Change is never comfortable, but this is an exciting time to serve in the Congress...
...result, Sadat in his travels through the Middle East must beg for funds even as he is trying to solidify his position as spokesman for all the Arab people. So far, he has had some success. Several new housing cities are rising alongside the Suez Canal as part of a rebuilding program that goes hand in hand with canal renovations: Faisal City, named for the late King of Saudi Arabia; Sabah City for the Sheik of Kuwait; Zayed City in honor of Abu Dhabi's Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al Nahayan...
Dollop of Charm. Yet it was Sir Noel's last great commercial success, and it has its virtues-notably as a study of that curious and enduring institution, the show-biz entourage. Like most stars, Essendine cannot live with the fatuities of his followers. Nor can he be without their faithful responses to every shift in pressure registered by his absurdly delicate inner barometer. For their part, his manager, his producer, his ex-wife and the women who will not be denied his bed are ever willing to allow him to quell their exasperation with a dollop of charm...
...difficult to say exactly why. It may, in the end, rest in an attitude engendered by the last complete American success. More and more I see the war and the class and the time as a watershed era in American life and history, and I think younger Americans sense this perhaps even more deeply. All those who survived the last days of the Great Depression through the Great War and that time of great optimism that followed it are coming to represent some old America, a gone America, an American attitude denied the generation following them. Can anyone think...