Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jacob handled all of the place-kicking duties for Harvard on Saturday, and converted all five of his point-afters. Although he was not summoned by Restic for any field goal attempts, all of Jacob's extra points sailed far over the crossbars, suggesting that he may have considerable success with three-pointers as well...
When President Ford was defeated, Bork briefly considered a Washington law practice but ultimately decided to return to Yale. The move was a financial success, but unsatisfying nonetheless. He published his book, The Antitrust Paradox, ten years in the making, debunking the antitrust notion that bigness was badness in corporate America. Businessmen flocked to his New Haven office, willing to pay $250 an hour for his counsel on antitrust and Justice Department matters. His income soared into six figures, and he quickly paid off a small debt left over from his children's schooling and began to build...
...involving 70 doctors, nurses and technicians. The procedure required draining all the blood from the boys' bodies and completely stopping their heartbeat. At week's end both were in critical but stable condition. Until the babies are roused from drug-induced comas, doctors cannot fully assess their health. "Success in this operation is not just separating the twins," says Dr. Mark Rogers, who coordinated the effort. "Success is producing two normal children...
...wrecked the middle ground between the sublime and the trivial. How many American artists, except for a few loners like Saul Steinberg and Ed Keinholz, are both really good and really, mordantly funny? By and large, America dislikes satire; it wants its humor cute and warm. Hence Grooms' success...
...President has altered the tenor of the nation's political debate, riding and guiding the pendulum swing from the liberal Zeitgeist of the 1960s to the conservative climate of the '80s. Yet for all the talk of a Reagan Revolution, for all the President's personal popularity and success in changing tax and spending policies, the social agenda of the New Right has remained largely unfulfilled. When he nominated Bork, Reagan said that the judge "shares my view" of the proper role of the court...