Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...success stories like Bradley's, Kemp's or Haden's areas rare as they are fascinating. The vast majority of college football and basketball players today are not going to become senators or doctors or lawyers...
Nevertheless, murmurs among some group members betray a harsher view of Harvard's Black hiring record. Some hint that it was the University "foot dragging" that purred them to action, and the principal success of the group that many members city private is the shift of discussion on affirmative action from the realm of governmentally imposed technicalities to that of pragmatic planning...
Meldon S. Hollis, an administrator in the affirmative action office, says the committee's success in organizing represented "the first time I have seen this kind of initiative with definite University support. There are individuals on campus that have worked very hard to make sure that discussions on affirmative action never rise above the technical issues." And Dr. John Henry, a former chair of the group, says of University efforts on minority hiring. "They may have been committed to it, but they needed constant reminders...
Despite the profusions of the party's right wing and the recent success of candidate Shamie, there is little evidence that the Republicans will begin offering a spate of Jack Kemp clones for statewide office to the exclusion of party moderates...
...possible." Yet the era of good feeling that Reagan is riding partly reflects a public appreciation of his leadership in certain substantive areas of policy. Indeed, the contest will involve an unusually stark ideological clash over the course that Reagan has set and its chances for success in the future. The principal battlegrounds...