Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...laxwomen's second stanza success was due largely to a combination defense, one that uses a woman-to-woman marking around midfield but a zone defense in the goal area...
...bring in more cash. What also helps, of course, is that most of the labor is free--only ten members of the Commission get anything at all and even Rifkin is reported to take home only $85 a week. And as the PBC becomes more visible, the early success begins to feed on itself to the point where it can now make money on the buttons, bumper stickers and other gimmicks they are turning out. The question remains though, about the purpose. It certainly doesn't seem logical to go to such lengths to create an on-going nationwide organization...
...great diplomats know, however, success is not a permanent state. One double and one quadruple bogey on the front nine spelled disaster, and not even a sub-par 35 on the back nine could turn the tables yesterday...
...administering future, non-political aid. In Congress, liberals spoke against military aid on humanitarian as well as pragmatic grounds--but their speeches were printed only in the Congressional Record. In more public forums, it was taken for granted that discussion of Vietnam would focus on America's lack of success in achieving its purposes, that the only issue related to Vietnam worthy or susceptible of discussion in the 1976 election was the familiar-standing question of Who Lost It. And if such discussion seemed unlikely to be taken seriously--as poll after poll showed overwhelming American majorities opposed to further...
This was testimony to the limited success of an antiwar movement that had increasingly insisted that American activities in Indochina called in question the whole political scaffolding on which they rested. And it was still more telling that the most important political figure still obviously concerned with what happened in Vietnam--as opposed to what happened in the United States--was President Ford, visibly moved by the influx of Vietnamese orphans and bewailing his lack of legal authority to continue bombing their country...