Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traditional bride prices, although now with a socialist tinge: an industrious girl who earns many work points (on which salaries in communes are based) brings a better price than a more indolent maiden. Even in the supposedly sophisticated cities, people often visit abandoned temples to pray for the success of some endeavor...
...long-term resident of the capital, also attended the Civil Aeronautics Board. When Alfred Kahn was chairman (before he moved on to enforce Carter's anti-inflation policies), he ordered his staff to write in straightforward quasi-conventional prose. But by his own reckoning he achieved only "41.3% success." As evidence Kahn offered a departmental rejection slip: "The involved document, though clothed in diplomatic costume, is no more than a transmittal note and is, thus, of no decisional significance." "There was nothing I could do but cry," Kahn lamented. "I felt so lonely and futile...
...spending, the fiscal 1980 budget will rise only about 8%, or less than the inflation rate. Thus the budget for fiscal 1980 looks much more like a "lean and tight" spending program than did the bloated one Carter produced last January. Next year's budget is already a success for OMB Boss James Mclntyre, who came to the job last winter as a fill-in replacement for the fallen Bert Lance, and only recently seems to have taken effective hold of his department. Staffers detect a new crispness in Mclntyre's decisions and report that he often backs...
...sudden success, he had his pout even then, and his tendency to pop off. McEnroe on Paris: "It would be a nice place if you took all the people out of the city." McEnroe on London: "I would go sightseeing but I don't think there's much to see in this place." But beneath the brashness and the bravado there seemed to be a nice kid struggling to get out. There still does. At Montego Bay last week, fans interrupted McEnroe regularly off court to get his autograph and his response was often downright embarrassment. He rarely said thank...
...like that-it was just 'Good bye, Kid,' in a most ordinary way under most extraordinary circumstances." In such passages the props of career and success are suddenly swept away, and To Have and Have Not becomes much more than a movie title...