Word: successful
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...team attracted thousands to each home game; the other brought in 30 or so. One team had a history of success; the other a history of mediocrity...
While many actors go to New York undertrained and short on contacts, Tucker McCrady has the closest thing to a ticket to success. He is a member of Julliard's 20th dramatic arts class. To gain admission, he competed against more than 600 people for one of the 20 openings. At the prestigious school he will receive voice, movement, dance, and acting lessons among others...
...self-interest would overcome the reluctance of a public whose sentiments were increasingly averse to economic commitments abroad. Today, 40 years later, West German President Richard von Weizsacker will take his place on the steps of Memorial Church to address the Class of 1987. His presence reflects the enduring success of Marshall's plan...
...plan was an overwhelming success in economic regeneration, not all the strategic objectives of its originators were as adequately fulfilled. George Kennan, appointed by Marshall to head the State Department's Policy Planning Staff in drafting the initiative, hoped that the Plan would be the first step toward a politically unified continental Europe. He envisioned French leadership of a continental federation, with a reunited and disarmed Germany serving as a buffer between East and West. Britain would join with Canada and the U.S. in an allied but separate political coalition. Eastern European states would be wooed into the neutral continental...
However, panelist Hollis B. Chenery, Cabot Professor of Economics Emeritus, said that the program will be hard to apply elsewhere because its success was dependent on the ability of the European governments to work together. "It is much harder to establish [collaboration] in other situations," he said...