Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...football team, M.B.A. from Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration. Three of McLaughlin's four children had graduated from Dartmouth or were going there. Finally, as chief executive officer of the Toro Co., makers of lawn and gardening equipment, McLaughlin was an exemplar of the business success that can be earned by a Dartmouth man with the right stuff...
...called mainly for new studies. Saying that welfare created a "spider's web of dependency," Reagan directed that his domestic-policy council, headed by Attorney General Edwin Meese, evaluate all federal welfare programs, with an eye toward restructuring the system. "The success of welfare," the President said, "should be judged by how many of its recipients become independent of welfare...
...that I'm taking this movie too seriously. After all, the makers of Delta Force picked an actual event and then selected an Amercian reaction to it which they felt was more appropriate than the actual reaction. I was forced to decide whether this reaction was actually superior. The success of an actual Delta Force raid on Beirut was so slim as to be ridiculous. The penalty for failure was also too great. If anything, Delta Force is a demonstration of how dangerous such rash, jingoistic actions can be. Of course, it is also a demonstration...
...landing, talking by phone to Neil Armstrong and Edwin ("Buzz") Aldrin on the lunar surface. "This certainly has to be the most historic phone call ever made." It was even more, and Nixon knew it. He launched a global diplomatic odyssey timed to take advantage of the Apollo 11 success. His itinerary placed him on the aircraft carrier Hornet just as the moon crew was fished out of the ocean and lifted onto the TV screens of people all over the globe. Without the continuing spectaculars in space, Nixon's demise because of Watergate would have produced even more...
...success of privatization at the local level has stirred the imagination of President Reagan, who thinks that it can work to a limited extent for the U.S. Government. The fiscal 1987 budget, which Reagan presents to Congress this week, was expected to propose selling many Government-owned operations to private companies. Among the things that may be put on the block are Dulles Airport, near Washington, the National Weather Service satellites, the Bonneville Power Administration in the Northwest, and the Navy's petroleum reserves in California and Wyoming...