Word: successful
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Harvard should and must be more than just an entrance to a self-indulgent world of financial or social success. Harvard is a most worthy institution when it produces graduates who through their studies or their actions somehow serve society. Harvard, as a great center of learning, does a pretty good job helping people who take the former route. But it also has a responsibility to help those who choose the latter way and wish to enter public service fields...
...sure whether the indigenous people were telling him the truth about the success of these co-ops since they claimed, "99 percent efficiency which is impossible." In frustration, he turned to foreigners for answers. "It was from the foreigners that I got a critical perspective; they are more realistic than the indigenous people," he says...
Based on the success of the 350th celebration, "the Undergraduate Council should be entitled to throw one of these bashes," Eisert said...
...stop heavily used by suburban commuters. There, vans operated by Kwik Wash, a local laundry service, pick up the bundles. In the afternoon at the same stop, riders get the clothes back, clean and neatly folded. Cost: 85 cents per lb. If the program is a success, film processing and shoe repair may be next...
That was when a performer considered damaged goods teamed up with a studio aching for mainstream success: Bette Midler made three comedies for Walt Disney Studios. Zinnng! A sprinkle of stardust, and here comes the happy ending, one as unlikely as the transformation of a white elephant into a soaring Dumbo. Her first, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, was tenth among 1986's box-office winners; the next, Ruthless People, ranked eighth; Outrageous Fortune has earned more than $25 million in the first 25 days of release. The cheeky trio made Disney a major movie studio and Midler Hollywood...