Word: successful
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...strategy was an enormous success. Only 79 drivers were so frantic to get to Las Vegas that they took the chance of making a run for it. Spotted by an airplane and a helicopter hovering overhead, they were soon ticketed by other patrol cars lurking on access roads. Normally, a dozen accidents take place on a big weekend, but only one occurred during the experiment: a drunk mistook a drainage ditch for an exit ramp...
Word of the plan's success spread so fast that 25 states, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and transportation men from Canada, France and England have already called to request details about California's caravans. "I'm really pleased this idea works," says Highway Patrol Inspector Walter Pudinsky, who thought up the new scheme. "We're all sick and tired of arresting people...
Exact Number. The controversy began in late January when Mrs. Ford wrote to State Representative William Kretschmar, thanking him for leading the fight for the ERA in North Dakota's house-a letter that Kretschmar says he used effectively in bringing off a victory. Pleased by the success, she then placed calls to state legislators in Illinois, where the ERA finally got out of committee; to Nevada, where it was subsequently passed by the assembly but defeated in the senate; and to Missouri, where the amendment was passed in the house. A call to Old Friend Barry Goldwater, however...
...PHONE. But there are the rewards, including this confession from a political wife: "No American has the right to ask another to silence her opinions-even if that person is her husband and a politician. I have fought for this right with my husband-at times with success. You are setting an example for me to continue that fight...
Inspired by the success of the oil producers, many countries are attempting to push up prices of other commodities, either through cartels or by unilateral action. Two current examples...