Word: successful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...changed, just so that it might be used as evidence, so be it. Apparently District 65 will have to fight in court if it wants to make an issue out of the Ropes and Gray memo and the ensuing change. And according to various labor lawyers, their chances of success would be very slim, unless they are able to show that there was an actual union organizing drive in progress in 1972, and not just the embryo of a drive, in the form of various committees...
...last week it appeared that they were having second thoughts about reconvening the talks without thorough preparation. As one Western diplomat in Moscow put it, the Soviets were having trouble getting "all their Arabs lined up in a row." Last week Pravda, with some irritation, observed that "success at Geneva would be facilitated by a common Arab position on the Palestinian issue...
...returned from meetings with President Ford in Washington last week. Some British commentators have already begun composing his political obituary. Wrote London Sunday Times Columnist Ronald Butt: "Mr. Wilson has lost his raison d'e#233;tre as leader. The qualification that justified his other shortcomings was his success at being all things to all men. He has now lost that knack...
...million Iraqis who depend on the river are short of drinking water. Saudi Petroleum Minister Sheik Zaki Yamani, whose negotiating skills have been honed at endless meetings of Middle East oil moguls, has been mediating between them. The split is so deep that even Yamani has had no success so far in bringing the revolutionary Arab neighbors together...
This year, the program has expanded still further. The team's success drew 95 women to the organizational meeting in the early fall, and 40 of them have stayed. Two other coaches have been hired, one for the revamped lightweight program, and one for the J.V. heavyweights...