Word: successful
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...comes through on television is extremely important in measuring that politician's success," said Marvin Kalb, former chief diplomatic correspondent at CBS and NBC News and current director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Policy at the Kennedy School...
...Raul Lopez Alvarez, 28, was found guilty in Los Angeles last week of kidnaping, torture and murder, the federal court verdict represented two important milestones. It was the nation's first conviction under a 1984 racketeering law that adds new penalties for violence. And it was the first conclusive success in the nation's long effort to punish those responsible for the 1985 murder in Mexico of Drug Enforcement agent Enrique Camarena and his pilot, Alfredo Zavala Avelar. The jury found Alvarez, formerly a member of the Guadalajara homicide squad, guilty of six charges, including two counts of committing violent...
...oppressed countries, those who yearn for democracy have no clear concept of what democracy is. What they do know is that their system has failed and their endurance and patience have been exhausted. "They know opportunities for the better have been squandered and that there is a key to success elsewhere," says Daniel Pipes, director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a non-partisan think tank based in Philadelphia. "But it is not clear what that key is, except that it means drastic change...
...neck at training camp in Hawaii, doubtless, it was said, because of a pea under her mattress. In Seoul, she complained, the team had to walk (she pronounced the unfamiliar word with distaste) to practice. Biondi said, trying to sound as if he believed it, that Evans owes her success to her "little skinny muscles," which are too small, he was sure, to store painful quantities of fatigue-producing lactic acid. "Look at this," said the 6-ft. 7-in. Biondi, sticking one huge arm under a reporter's nose. "I get all filled up with the stuff...
...naval battle in Chesapeake Bay and Washington's victory (with essential French aid) over Cornwallis at Yorktown are presented in the context of political decisions and misjudgments made thousands of miles across the Atlantic. Young America produced an unusual number of intelligent and bold leaders, but, to Tuchman, the success of its war of independence rested largely on the outcome of European struggles for colonies and commerce...