Word: successful
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...been on the road with my tin cup for many days, and I know what a supreme achievement this really is," Slive said on the day the fundraising success was announced...
...they received the interception order. By 5:30, they had spotted the EgyptAir plane, and the final drama began. Back at his vacation home in Bar Harbor, Me., Defense Secretary Weinberger called the President at the White House to inform him of the mission's success...
...Achille Lauro hijackers by four Navy fighters provided the armed forces with a much needed victory to boast about. It answers "the cheap-shot artists who try to portray the military as not being able to tie their shoelaces," exulted Navy Secretary John Lehman. But the Navy's success at diverting a single civilian airliner is not likely to muffle a drumbeat for military reform that has been swelling throughout Washington. At a session with reporters last week, former Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard, who chairs a presidential commission appointed to look into charges of Pentagon waste and mismanagement...
Lenoci was attracted "primarily by the success of the people who hadn't rowed before, and by the small time commitment," he says Wayne decided to row "to meet people, and just to try something...
...Green sets up with four linebackers, but more is not necessarily better. ILB Len Fontes leads the squad with 54 tackles, and senior Peter Kortebein has 49. The linebacking corps has had to balance between pass and run coverage this season, and has met with only marginal success. SECONDARY: Safety Cecil Cox and cornerback Lee Oldenburg have made the defensive secondary a hard-hitting aerial net. Nonetheless, Ken Tarczy and Frank Ciota have played erratically. But Dartmouth quarterback David Gabianelli shouldn't test them. * SECONDARY: Cornerback Steve Briggs was Dartmouth's defensive player of the week against Colgate last Saturday...