Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because the Quad Houses and Mather typically are not chosen by many freshman lottery entrants, they wind up with a random group whose only common trait is their lack of success in the lottery process...
Adams Master Robert J. Kiely says he opposes any system in which not all students can choose their Houses. "There are reasons for people picking a certain community, and there has been a high success, [under the current system] of students getting their first choice," he explains...
...great to be part of a progressing program," he said. "Our success came as a surprise to me, because we hadn't trained more than 10 days prior to the competition...
Perhaps most remarkable of all was the continuing performance of Voyager 2. Launched in August 1977, it was originally designed to operate for five years and assigned to encounter only Jupiter (in 1979) and Saturn (in 1981), missions that it carried out with great success, sending back data and thousands of spectacular photographs of both planets. But even before Voyager sped by Saturn, NASA decided to take further advantage of a onceevery-175- years alignment of the outer planets by using Saturn's gravitational pull to hurl Voyager on to Uranus, then to use Uranian gravity to speed the craft...
...Much of the film's success depends on the main character, Rigoberta Menchu. Where did you find her? What about her attracted...