Word: successful
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...private groups' success is getting local communities involved, which clears away expensive and time-consuming political obstacles to projects. In Brooklyn a coalition of powerful East Brooklyn churches launched the Nehemiah plan seven years ago, taking the project's name from the Old Testament figure who revived Jerusalem after the city was destroyed by the Babylonians. "Nehemiah went to the people and said we have to rebuild," says Mike Gecan, an initiative organizer. "That is what this effort is all about...
Staffers attribute TNC's success to its philosophy of nonconfrontation. While the Sierra Club and the Wilderness Society, for example, employ litigation, lobbying and publicity as weapons, TNC prefers to use gentle persuasion -- and cash. "We have very little to do with the activist environmental groups," says David Morine, TNC's head of land acquisitions. "We stay away from all that and get along with everybody." The organization has even extended an olive branch to developers, a group that most environmentalists consider the enemy. "We are not in conflict with developers," says TNC's new president Frank Boren, himself...
Transferring success as an editor to the quirkier demands of columning is not automatic, and Rosenthal's first columns, going out to the 300 U.S. newspapers that subscribe to the New York Times News Service, have a way to go. But ^ Rosenthal, starting out on a new career at 64, is characteristically sure that he can successfully write about foreign affairs, love "or whatever else is in my head, and I hope it's not too lonely up there...
...fact that her suit even came to trial, much less that it resulted in a semi-success, disturbed many writers and First Amendment experts. "The idea that the more you fictionalize, the more you falsify, the more liable you become is quite intolerable," argues Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe. Even though the settlement creates no binding precedent, any Anderson victory, says Novelist Gilbert Sorrentino (Mulligan Stew), is "bad news for writers of fiction. It will open the floodgates for more cases like this...
...Institute in Washington, lauds the Administration for its continuing antiprotectionist restraint in the face of pressure to enact much more sweeping measures. The latest White House trade initiative, he points out, is a "balancing act between politics and economics. They've played this game with a fair amount of success...