Word: successful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another weekend, a 3-1 record would have been a success for the Harvard softball team. This weekend, however, only the Crimson's one loss seems to matter...
...mourn the fact that I never learned to talk throughout a lecture, monopolize a section with pointless drivel, or mockingly intimidate my fellow students. I wanted to complain about all the people who have taken on these infuriating habits, and how I wish them nothing but empty and meaningless success for the rest of their life...
...public school. This week the Children's Scholarship Fund will announce that it has been besieged with applications for the $600 to $1,600 annual stipends, even though strapped parents will have to come up with an average of $1,000 themselves. And that's not the only success Forstmann has scored on this front. Last year's smaller program, for 1,000 students in Washington, produced enough heartwarming success stories of kids now thriving to fill a season of Touched by an Angel...
Once committed to actual combat, anything less than overwhelming and rapid military success for the intervening power will be diplomatically disastrous...
NATO remains flummoxed by the limp Serbian air defense. The Pentagon suggests it signifies allied success in taking down the Serbian air-defenses, by attacks, jamming and corrupting data, which the allies have fed into Yugoslav computers through microwave transmissions. Pentagon analyst Franklin Spinney says Serbia's plan echoes its World War II tactics. The Germans sent 700,000 troops into Serbia but were unable to root Serbian partisans out despite four years of fierce fighting. "The Serbs are using their air-defense system as a quasi guerrilla force to capture the attention and distract the focus of NATO...