Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They cautioned, however, that at least one more year of experiments and about 10 more patients would have to receive the treatment before they could claim success in fighting lung cancers. It could be longer, according to officials, before the treatment could be tried and applied to other forms of cancers...
...said, working through the problems that come up this year may prove critical to the program's overall success, and possible future expansion...
...lesson the Democrats have not taken to heart from the Reagan success is that the American people are willing to overlook major policy disagreements with a leader as long as he asserts his policies forcefully enough. Americans worship leadership; that's why patriotism is defined as "my country, right or wrong." America would excuse the Democratic Party being a little wrong as long as it were strong...
...solutions to the problems of toxic dumping and acid rain are in everyone's interest, and you had better believe that the average urban worker cares about them. There are 1000 Superfund dumpsites in Massachusetts alone, and only 300 towns. Local and state public-interest groups have had enormous success organizing and fundraising in working-class neighborhoods on the hazardous-waste issue, but on the national level Democrats seem either ignorant of the potential of this issue, or afraid to be seen as No-Nukes flower children. Democrats have become accustomed to expressing support for environmental cleanup with the endorsement...
...Democrats frame issues as though America were a conglomeration of single-issue groups, and if they could appeal to each one with a different issue, they would have enough groups to form a majority. A large part of the Republican success can be attributed to the unified vision they presented to the American public, incorporating all issues. Americans demonstrated an amazing tolerance for those elements of the vision which did not fit in with their...