Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trying to make a revolution." Hooker said of the left-wing Sandinista government that in 1979 overthrew the right-wing U.S. backed Somoza clan, adding that he fears the Reagan Administration's intervention will prevent the revolution's success...
Despite intervention from abroad, the Sandinista government is doing all it can to improve the quality of life of all Nicaraguans. Hooker said. He cited the country's success in cutting illiteracy from 60 percent to 12 percent...
...does one capitalize of such an unexpected success? Mark Twain followed Tom Sawver with a slew of spin-offs, some, like Huckleberry Finn, classics in their own right: others, like Tom Sawyer, Detective, obvious efforts to keep the Clemens' larder well-stocked at a minimum of effort...
...deeper level, though, we see Eco the academic struggling to understand his unexpected success. Popular success that is, Far as a member of the academic community. Eco must have been taught that the popular appeal of a person's work is irrelevant to its ultimate importance. That's how an Egyptologist can justify his life's effort against that of a scriptwriter for Fridays. In Postscript, Eco tries to tell his colleagues that he hasn't pandered to the public, by offering explanations of why The Name of the Rose was such a hit with unsophisticated readers." Says Professor...
...problem now," she said. "Is that were being involved with students who want to get involved with the program and we don't have enough kids to go around." According Greene neither the directors nor Caulfield anticipated the large number of interested athletes after years of only moderate success...