Word: successful
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...Democratic proposals as reforming welfare and balancing the federal budget. Back then, the DLC was the home of malcontents frustrated by the party establishment's leftist orthodoxy -- and by its tendency to put forward sure-loser candidates like Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis. Now, thanks to Clinton's success as an Oval Office two-termer, DLC thinking has become the party's de facto theology, and its annual conference has developed into a station of the Democratic cross -- the place where, two years out from election day, all but the most liberal candidates must come to prove their mainstream appeal...
...satisfying it is to hear a world-class orchestra perform without any pretensions. Indeed, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra exhibited a restraint in their Boston debut that was crucial to the success of the performance. The orchestra is touring the United States as an official Cultural Ambassador of the Sydney, Australia 2000 Olympic Arts Festival. The November 13 performance at Symphony Hall was also a part of BankBoston's annual Celebrity Series. This year also marks the 10th anniversary of the orchestra's 1988 American debut in Carnegie Hall. Led by Dutch conductor Edo de Waart, the orchestra makes its first...
...always been accused of fragility. Its success, some say, rode on the shoulders of Magic Johnson and Larry Bird in the 80s and Michael Jordan in the 90s, and the presence of these superstars kept a veil over deeper structural problems...
Also boasting a young team composed of six freshmen, the Harvard men struggled against Brandeis last night and have not experienced much success this year...
Pulled up by a humming economy-and Wall Street success during the last five years-Harvard's endowment has soared. But the University's top decision-makers have played it cautious, fearing a market drop...