Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leadership and welcomed the renewed sense of purpose that Ford brought to U.S. policy toward NATO. Said Premier Moro: "The solidarity reaffirmed by President Ford has become alive and operative for all." In that important psychological sense, both Europeans and Americans called Ford's excursion abroad an unqualified success...
...prepared themselves very well with a great deal of penetration in the middle classes. If they succeed in not losing on the extreme left, they should hold their position. If they also succeed in their attempt to take votes from the Socialists, then they will have scored a notable success, increasing their vote...
...Isadore Rossman, who directs the Montefiore programs, hopes that the success of these pilot projects and the acceptance of others like them round the country will lead to the passage of legislation to create and buttress alternatives to institutional care. Such programs would prove an unexpected bargain. Montefiore's home-care costs about $12 a day, or a maximum of $4,380 a year. Even with an elderly person's rent and food bills-averaging at least $2,400 a year-added on, this makes staying out of a nursing home far cheaper than going in. The average...
Another issue:. How did IBM achieve its pre-eminent position? The Government says it used predatory tactics. Barr retorted in court last week that the company's success resulted simply from "better products, greater productive efficiency, better service, right judgments about the future at key periods of time and the willingness [of management] to back those judgments." To support its claim that its triumphs have been based on quality, IBM is likely to call as witnesses purchasing agents of its biggest (between $4 billion and $6 billion annually) customer: the U.S. Government itself...
...Schlesinger has chosen to ignore this detachment and tries to get us involved in Tod's search for true romance and success. It's an impossible proposition, for he is nominally a "real person" among a gallery of freaks, and his problems are simply not that interesting...