Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recipients of the prize--which is a memorial to Joseph R. Levenson, a former instructor in Chinese history at Harvard renowned for his teaching ability--praised their students for being the key ingredient in their pedagogical success...
...next big push for unionization will be inprivate higher education. A success like Harvardwill make more clerical workers and unions awarethat this kind of organizing is possible," saidJoan Berconi, a coordinator at the Center forLabor and Industrial Relations at the Universityof California-Berkeley...
Nevertheless, many prisoners eventually earn their GEDs. Their success can be partially credited to the PBH program, which provides the only individual instruction many of the participants ever receive...
Contact with people like the Harvard tutors is particularly important for many prisoners because they come from a violent background in which "the street" is home and "officers" are the enemy. Coming from the underclass, such individuals often feel they have no real opportunity to attain conventional standards of success or happiness, writes Rhodes scholar Jay MacLeod '83-'84, who was a PBH officer during his undergraduate years. In his book on disadvantaged Boston-area youth, Ain't No Makin' It, MacLeod argues that such hopelessness leaves people disconnected from mainstream society. Inmates agree, saying they feel shunned and forgotten...
...groundbreaking police series Hill Street Blues virtually reinvented TV drama. He followed up that success with the tony courtroom drama L. A. Law and the provocative "dramedy" Hooperman. Bochco is already the most influential and iconoclastic TV producer of the '80s. Now, with a lucrative deal to create ten shows for ABC, he is poised to put his stamp...