Word: successful
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Although the Delaware will never regain its precolonial purity, the estuary has been vastly improved. Shad, which disappeared 60 years ago, are back, along with 33 other species of fish that had virtually vanished. Estuary Expert Richard Albert calls the Delaware "one of the premier pollution- control success stories...
...widely noted that Reagan's revolution never took place. The Government is bigger than ever, doing most of the same things. In fact, the failure of his revolution is the reason for his electoral success: it was a revolution people didn't really want. And Bush, lacking Reagan's charm, is backpedaling furiously, promising new programs, renewed Government activism...
...behind the counter says he predicts success for Chicago Frank's anticipating the run-off from Charlie's and hungry River Rats as his clientele. But Frank's isn't likely to lure too many Harvard students away from House grilles as long as it closes at 11 p.m., serves even its Basic Dogs for as much as $2.25 and fails to diversify its menu beyond wieners to include Polish sausage and cheeseburgers (which it is supposed to do shortly...
Gorbachev's four-day state visit to Poland, which included 21 public appearances in three cities, was the riskier part of his visit. His trademark flesh-pressing tours were not a guaranteed box-office success in a country that harbors an enmity toward Moscow leaders dating far back in history -- an enmity deepened by the imposition of martial law in 1981 under threat of Soviet intervention. It hardly helped matters that Gorbachev's host was Party Boss Wojciech Jaruzelski, the army general who imposed and later rescinded the military rule and who remains widely disliked in Poland. The visit, moreover...
...says, "We used to be technocrats, but we're born again." Albert Carnesale, the academic dean, agrees that Dukakis refocused the school from lofty federal projects to more nitty-gritty state and local issues. He began the summer program for state and local officials that continues with great success. Mark Moore, the specialist in criminal justice, says, "Other politicians who come in have three problems with the place. First, there is status shock. They are reduced from having their own staff to sitting in a cubbyhole." That never bothered Dukakis, who showed up on his bicycle every day. "Second...