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Word: successful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about to go out in the world again," he said, "that success-oriented place, and it worries...

Author: By Daniel P. Oran, | Title: Back Again | 12/9/1985 | See Source »

Like his predecessor, Coleman views DEA's success not in the number of arrests agents make but in the quality of arrests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEA Head Battles Coke | 12/9/1985 | See Source »

...President Reagan to a personality contest in '86. Glossing over the President's accomplishments, however, is not an option for the Democrats. If they ignore the last six years, the Democrats will prove that they have wavered in their commitment to their party's principles, and will turn any success they might have into little more than victories of one set of empty symbols over another...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Giving Up the Ship | 12/7/1985 | See Source »

...major part of the credit for Jewish economic success must be given to the Jewish culture. Thomas Sowell says in Economics and Race, education always held a prominent and respected place in Jewish society. Jewish immigrants seized upon every opportunity for free education, using the likes of City College and Brooklyn College itself to gain the education that allowed them to move from the ghetto into the highest ranks of society. Where direct aid from the federal government generally met with failure, education succeeded...

Author: By Emil E. Parker, | Title: Reaffirming Affirmative Action | 12/3/1985 | See Source »

...Berger does not mean to be a doomsayer. The Hooker clean-up was a limited, if flawed success; it mandated responsibility and reclaimed, if not restored, lost ground. Berger's later chapters describe equally imposing cases of ecological destruction, but also less daunting problems that lead to more perfect reclaimation, and even restoration...

Author: By John Ross, | Title: Saving the World From Itself | 12/3/1985 | See Source »

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