Word: successful
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...says Steinem, women focused on external barriers to equality such as a lack of job opportunities and low representation in government. With the help of books like Women and Love, she believes, women can now overcome internalized obstacles like their feeling that they must "define their success in terms of human relationships...
...question "preference inventory." In his class on managerial effectiveness, William Zierdt offers individual analysis of the results, adding, "I also read tea leaves, or you can bring your own chicken." Thus a volunteer learns that he's a decision- making rationalist with no emotional content. "Hell, that's success in the business world," says Zierdt...
...Wang Lianzheng, vice governor of Heilongjiang province. Wittwer, the principal writer, made five trips to China during the past seven years and received unstinting cooperation from the Communist authorities in undertaking an in-depth study of Chinese farming methods. What he found, writes Wittwer, was a "hallmark of success in food production and agricultural reform...
...Avenue. Within this setting, Author Shere Hite is a slight, willowy figure, resembling nothing so much as a fey, reclusive maiden on leave from a Renaissance fair. It is an exquisitely crafted image, graceful, faintly otherworldly, eccentric. The $1.5 million, four-room duplex apartment is a monument to the success of her two earlier Hite Reports...
Summing up the damage, Robert Farmer, Dukakis' campaign treasurer, asserts, "We've taken a body blow, but we're going to make sure the campaign is a success." Perhaps. Campaigning across Iowa Friday, Dukakis brought up the subject voluntarily at almost every stop, portraying himself as a man who had taken painful but decisive action to maintain his integrity. Many voters seemed forgiving. But in New Hampshire, where he has been leading, a quick poll showed a 10% drop in the number of voters who view him favorably...