Word: successful
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...fact, Duarte has had a hand in turning White House policy in El Salvador -- considered the Administration's sole success story in Central America -- into another potential failure, alongside Panama and Nicaragua. U.S. embassy officials in San Salvador continue to insist that Duarte is making slow progress toward ending the war and establishing a democratic system, but other Western diplomats are more pessimistic. "Things are a shambles," says a West European envoy. "The Americans are in for a shock." Even State Department officials concede that the rosy analysis emanating from the U.S. embassy is "dreamwork...
Most of Ford's success has come at the expense of the much larger GM, which has been slow to respond to changing consumer tastes. In 1984 GM owned a 46% share of the U.S. passenger-car market, compared with Ford's 19%. At last count, GM had dropped to 37%, while Ford had risen to capture 22% of the $130 billion-a-year domestic market. Chrysler is chugging along with 12% of U.S. sales, in contrast...
Anderson is no ordinary student entertainer. Her performance skills span the musical spectrum, but her singing success is only half of the story. As a psychology major, she has managed to fulfill all her requirements for medical school in case her musical career does not meet her expectations. And those dreams may well be high--for after graduation Anderson plans to return to her home in Georgia and start working on a record under the auspices of an Atlanta-based studio...
...joint women's and Afro-American studies concentrator says students today also lack interest in becoming full-time activists after college because they do not consider it a "successful" career. She says Harvard's reputation encourages this attitude because it pressures students to seek traditional forms of success--in business, law or academia...
...judging by PBH's success in the past few years, the tactic of reforming from within may be working...