Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does this underground Trailways. Last year its buses delivered low rates and lots of laughs to more than 1,000 coast-to-coast passengers. The prototype was a VW van on the Portland-to-Berkeley run ten years ago. Its success prompted a flock of imitators, which still crisscross the continent summers and during the Christmas break. "We all know we're working on borrowed time," says one of the owners, who also doubles as a bus driver. "One of these days we'll be found out, and it will be over." At Big Spring, Texas, we have...
...casting cold eyes over all assembled, including their associates. Even in discussions of the weather, ideological inflexibility emerges, spawned by that Soviet sense of inferiority that suggests they are going to prove they are right, come what may. There are those who still insist that one reason for the success of the 1972 Moscow summit was that Nixon had bombed Haiphong and mined the city's harbor in North Viet Nam only a few weeks before he went to Russia...
...Success, however, is breeding new problems for minority recruiters, Hargadon said...
Much of Harvard's success last night can be attributed to Yale's lack of height. "They didn't have a dominating big guy," said Fine. "We matched up well against them...
...helped farmers restore land ravaged by floods and destructive farming practices. But again, the T.V.A.'s way of doing business was unlike virtually all other federal agencies. Instead of forcing the farmers to adopt T.V.A. standards, the agency convinced several farmers to try out their suggestions, and once the success of the programs was demonstrated the rest of the farmers clamored for assistance. Instead of imposing authority from above, the T.V.A. espoused the philosophy of decentralized administration of centralized authority. The T.V.A. is the only federal agency whose main headquarters is in the region it serves, not Washington...