Word: successful
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Clinton's success may stem from her persistence. Her persistence may stem from the values she learned growing up in a close-knit community of parents, teachers and neighbors who worked together to raise the community's children...
...generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights, destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success, grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faith in humanity shaken...
...sober '90s. We have romantic conceptions of the true meaning of student activism and have had austere lessons in the failure of pithy aphorisms and the inevitability of complexity and, often, inaction. We are a generation burdened with the memory of attempted change and of subsequent half-success or failure...
...family heritage is well grounded in the community," Decherd says. "It is central to the nature of the business, namely journalism. How we allocate resources ultimately determines our success in achieving journalistic goals...
Despite these successes, there was one important area in which students got a failing grade. To quote President Bok, "There is no indication that college has had much success in increasing kindness, sympathy, altruism, or friendliness toward others." In fact, students themselves did not report any noticeable improvement in "moral sensitivity or character" during their undergraduate years...