Word: successful
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Ebbel said a similar measure met with success at Dartmouth...
McGuinness and Speedie are recognized with the Donovan award for their work "behind the scenes in the arts...contributing most to the success of a production and the opportunity for others to shine...
Certainly NATO has had success in debilitating Milosevic's military capabilities with its bombing runs. Milosevic's military infrastructure has been reduced; his ability to retaliate has been minimalized. But these achievements carry the same applicability as the ideas of "autonomy" and "peace" that have echoed through the Allied Force's characterization of the war. They sound like robust achievements and the kinds of gains that win the wars politicians fight, but they miss the essence of the Kosovo problem...
...true; they tell what happened. Frank McCourt's 1996 best seller Angela's Ashes kindled interest in the memoirs of ordinary people. Says Adam Sexton, dean of New York City's Gotham Writers' Workshop: "People read McCourt and think, 'I could do that.'" Maybe everyone won't equal his success, but to your family and friends the story you write will be prized above all others...
Even Chang, a recent immigrant from northern China and the most proficient English speaker in the class, struggled to pronounce the word, "freeze." For a chef in a local Chinese restaurant, mastery of this word might make or break his culinary presentation and ensure employment success...