Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that weekend of euphoria--highlighted by a Webster last-second overtime jumper which capped an improbable 17-point comeback against eventual league champ Penn--proved to be the high point. Rather than bringing continued success, though, the rest of the season proved to be one long downhill slide...
Although the line--which averages around 250 lbs. per man--has had success opening up holes for Scocca, it has also had problems protecting Given. In three games, the Bucknell signalcaller was sacked for a total of 77 yards...
...That's a position the Soviet Union can only envy." By contrast, Gorbachev has already chastised Bulgaria and its troubled economy. After visiting Sofia in late 1985, the Soviet leader said there were "sharp edges" to his meeting with Bulgarian Leader Todor Zhivkov. Zhivkov has since pressed, with minimal success, for economic reforms like the decentralization of economic power to factory managers...
...capital, Syrian President Hafez Assad took one of the biggest gambles of his 16 years in power. He sent 7,500 Syrian troops into West Beirut to try to restore order there -- a task that several countries, including the U.S., France, Israel and Syria itself, had previously tried without success. Was Assad about to become the latest victim of Lebanon's endless civil war, or could he restore peace to the troubled land...
...become chairman of the House Democratic Caucus in 1984. He was the co-sponsor with New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley of the Bradley- Gephardt tax-reform proposal, one of the prototypes for the sweeping revision of the tax code that was enacted last summer. Gephardt intends to tap that success for all it is worth, stressing that he can "take the ideas and make them happen, get them through Congress...