Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trackwomen swept past Brown, 15-50, Northeastern, 15-49, and Drake, 29-30. Sophomore Suzanne Jones was the Crimson's first runner to finish, placing third overall. Part of Harvard's success came from its ability to run together as a pack...
...however, the hardships are well worth the chance to observe the candidate up close, to see how he responds to setbacks and success, unexpected attacks and opportunities; all that can be gleaned only on the campaign trail. Sums up national political correspondent Laurence I. Barrett: "For a political reporter in a campaign year, the only place to be worse than the plane is anywhere off the plane...
Some of these men are the missing Black fathers who have had kids with three different mothers, the criminals who sell drugs and shoot each other in alleys, the high-school dropouts who work anonymous jobs and live in anonymous sections of the cities. Some of them are the success stories unnecessarily pointed to by well-meaning white liberals as "proof" that some Blacks can become useful members of society. In reality, they are individual men who have done nothing more than follow the different motivating factors that life has presented them...
ACCORDING to Murphy, opening night for the Spanish film showcase was a success. Roman Gubern, a Spanish critic, introduced the first film, Juan Antonia Bardem's Death of a Cyclist, to an almost sold-out theater. This 1955 Spanish classic, like the others in the festival, displayed subtitles...
Studies have shown that SAT scores above a certain point bear little correlation to actual academic success in college. That is why colleges do not base their general admission policies solely on board scores. Class rank, more a function of the size and caliber of the student's high school than the student's aptitude, is only one small factor into the general admissions process...