Word: successful
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Unless unforeseen international crises erupt, the success of Reagan's second term will probably be decided at home. His "window of opportunity," to use a favorite Washington phrase, is variously estimated at somewhere between 60 days and eleven months. After that, it is widely assumed that Congress will become distracted by the 1986 elections. Reagan's ability to tackle the deficit, says one senior adviser, "is going to be determined by how successful he is coming...
Every President is heavily dependent for his success on the quality of the men and women he selects to fill the most important posts in his Cabinet and on his White House staff. In the Reagan Administration, that dependency has taken a quantum leap. By temperament and managerial choice, Ronald Reagan usually is content to chart the broadest philosophical directions for his Government and leave not only the details but much of the substantive content of policy to be developed by his advisers. When they disagree, he generally relies on them to work out a compromise among themselves; he chooses...
...bald- headed man on the left, stares glumly into a future of rejection, loneliness and despair. No bright-eyed new friends for him. Mr. After, who has doused himself with Yuppiegoo, now sprouts a coiffure worthy of Mick Jagger, and he smiles toward a future of romance and success. Dom Perignon in the Bahamas, white tie. Yours for only $1.98, or some such, say those little ads that have long appeared, along with offers of trusses and tattooing kits, in the back pages of the hairier men's magazines...
...signs of improvement is immediately apparent in the newcomer's square foot of personal space: an area paved with debris and bounded on one side by doors that creep open each time the train gathers speed. One inch, two inches . . . what next? A young woman in a dressed-for-success suit, leg warmers and running shoes tries to offer some consolation: "But you have a partition to lean against." The connection between leaning against a partition and comfort is, however, unclear to the newcomer...
...pound's decline temporarily, the long-term effectiveness of such rescue efforts is questionable. During the past few years, several governments have attempted to intervene unilaterally in world money markets in order to push the value of their currencies up or down. They have had only brief, limited success. Ultimately, the markets determine a currency's value...