Word: successful
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...that began yesterday at Brown University is a welcome show of student strength on an issue that has received little attention at Harvard. The compromises that have been achieved in negotiations with the administration during the last few weeks are only a small measure of the student coalition's success. For the first time, the budget-making process at Brown has been opened to public scrutiny, and students have a participated, in however small a way, in decisions that have a serious effect on the quality of education and student life...
...effect, Sadat had converted what could have been a serious policy defeat for Egypt into a diplomatic success. He had risked his reputation in the Arab world by cooperating so strenuously with Kissinger's efforts to achieve another disengagement agreement, which would have included a further Israeli withdrawal in the Sinai. The failure of Kissinger's mission had at first seemed a victory for radical Arab leaders...
...global scope. In the past, many European nations and Japan could stimulate their flagging economies by boosting exports. But because all the major economies are in decline at the same time, there is a marked dearth of buyers. Thus the rest of the industrial world can only fervently wish success for the moderately stimulative policies of Germany, Japan-and especially the U.S., by far the richest market...
...Moneychangers is well timed. In the past 18 months, three major U.S. banks have collapsed. The "watch list" kept by the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency on banks in need of special surveillance has later reached an alltime high of 150. The general reader, too, judging by the success of Martin Mayer's recent expose of banking (TIME, Jan. 20) is beginning to wonder if going systematically into debt is as prudential as it was once thought...
Kelly said that fighting racing in Boston schools is urgent because "the near success of those who would prevent integration of this city's schools has become a rallying point" for anti-busing forces in other cities...