Word: successful
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...true that Ohio has led the way in extensive use of "shock probation." The relative success of the measure is gratifying. However, let us not simply assume that shock probation works because "the first taste of prison has as much curative effect as the full dose." There are at least two other possibilities: 1) persons selected for shock probation by the judges may have needed no confinement; the prosecutory process alone was corrective; and 2) persons selected for shock probation may become worse social risks because they have been exposed to the confinement experience. Ohio has begun to study other...
Finally, the account says, those very fellows who had carried the Nixon presidency to the heights of success in four years went on a secret orgy of shattering both traditions and laws. The unsuspecting President was banqueting in Peking...
...House Aides Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. Such a desire would derive naturally from Kissinger's past career at the White House. Trapped between the hostility of Haldeman and Ehrlichman, who distrusted any signs of independence, and the jealousy of State Department officials who resented his power and success, Kissinger has been a target of sniping ever since he joined the Administration. He has tried on three separate occasions to resign. Each time, his friends have persuaded him to stay...
...success depends wholly on the incidence of coincidence," Davis says--such fortune can only be construed as proof of divine grace. "This thing needs to be investigated," he adds with mock seriousness...
...suave and polished Derek Bok--dressed in a Brown Perry shirt--wiped the court with Radcliffe's number one player, Meg Morgan, 8-4. The match was living proof of Matina Horner's thesis that women fear success: Morgan's hard and well-placed shots put Bok to shame, but totally psyched out, she threw away her serves and lost...