Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thinclads, who found their greatest success in the field events, competed for the last time before the IC4A's, to be held at Villanova University in two weeks...
David Stockman's kiss-and-tell memoir seems headed for a quick public success --it will be No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list and No. 2 on TIME's list next week--rivaling the succes de scandale it is enjoying in / Washington. The former head of the Office of Management and Budget has set tongues wagging with his contemptuous descriptions of his former colleagues and his odd self-portrait. Stockman, according to Stockman, was at once an arrogant ideologue and "a veritable incubator of shortcuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth"--the truth in this...
...toll-free number. They earn $4.42 an hour, the same starting wage as the company's regular operators, but the convicts hand over 30% of the money to the prison to pay for room and board. Ronald Evans, Best Western's chief executive officer, calls the program a "resounding success that has solved a legitimate business need...
...position to keep watch on the Soviet Union and the Middle East. With the shuttle program on hold and the once trusty Titan turning unreliable, America's ability to get satellites into orbit had been seriously impaired. But NASA looked with confidence to the workhorse Delta. It had flown successfully 43 consecutive times, including its last mission, on Nov. 13, 1984. "We need this satellite," said NASA Acting Administrator William Graham, "and we need to remind ourselves that we have had success in the space program...
When Corazon Aquino emerged from practically nowhere as a political Joan of Arc and replaced Marcos, most Americans rightly cheered this as a success for democracy. Yet she soon found it necessary to dissolve the National Assembly and the existing constitution amid promises that new and improved models of both would be supplied within a year. If some right-wing general or politician had done this, there would have been screams of protest everywhere. As it is, Aquino's pledge of her democratic good intentions is taken at face value, and it should be. But her intentions...