Word: successful
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...rugged dirt roads collect 2,000 pesos ($1.25) a vehicle for improvements. And the FARC recently held a local election under quasi-Marxist rules, which meant that voters could choose among candidates from a single FARC-supported party. Afterward, a FARC leader assured TIME that the party's success will spread. "We have every intention," he said, "of governing as much of this country as we can." That mild-sounding proposition could be a lethal battle...
...been pleased with the success we've had," she says...
...only installing the boxes in the upperclass Houses for now. However, there are plans to possibly expand to the first-year dorms after the AEO staff assesses the success of the boxes. Students will have a chance to weigh-in on the efficiency of the program through a spring survey...
...Professor Charles Nesson of Harvard Law School, of Oct. 21, 1998, from Professor Roderick MacFarquhar, chair of the Department of Government, explains that in the composition of the ad hoc committee, "The Dean has the final word, presumably to ensure that no Department can pack the committee to ensure success." Harvard's own tenure review procedures require that the president, so far from relying on the objectivity of tenured faculty, must consult with scholars from other departments and from outside the university who are "chosen for their objectivity and competence to judge whether the proposed appointment represents the best direction...
Sometimes just being there assures success. Janet Reno became the nation's second-longest-serving attorney general on Monday, logging in five years and 10 months and coming in behind only William Wirt, who put in 11 years and three months in the administrations of James Monroe and John Quincy Adams. "I don't know that she's become the second-longest-serving atorney general because she's been the second most distinguished," says TIME writer Adam Cohen. She's survived "mostly because she has been the beneficiary of the fact that it has been too awkward for Clinton...