Word: successful
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...task force's findings will undoubtedly intensify debates about whether the SAT deserves the respect it commands from college admission officers. For years, the test's critics have argued not only that it is a lousy measure of intelligence and predictor of academic success but also that it is culturally biased...
While I would never claim that standard American English is the best language, I will claim that knowledge of English is vital to achieving financial and work-related success in America. Universities are best able to educate students who speak it, and those who have mastered it are better able to compete in the American job market than those who have not. While America may be in the process of becoming a more diverse nation, English is still by far the most economically viable language...
...nature's wonders; after crashing his homemade fiber-glass plane into Monterey Bay, Calif. Denver's road trips with the Chad Mitchell Trio inspired him to compose Leaving on a Jet Plane, a No. 1 hit for Peter, Paul and Mary in 1969. He went solo with equal success, charming audiences with his lyrical tenor and country-boy appeal. As he crooned Take Me Home, Country Roads and Sunshine on My Shoulders, he seemed to embody the peace-loving ethos of the 1970s. Offstage he was devoted to nature conservation. His squeaky-clean image was sullied by two arrests...
...Amman, prompting KING HUSSEIN to threaten to sever relations. Answering the charges of recklessness, an Israeli official says that precisely to avoid embarrassing the King, Mossad chose to spray a toxin into Meshal's ear. Says the source: "The decision to act was taken based on the 100% success rate of this method, which left no fingerprints whatsoever. If they had done it in the right way, no one would have noticed." The toxin was based on the drug fentanyl, a widely used anesthetic that can be absorbed through the skin and is lethal in large doses...
...success of the little jets at commuter airlines has forced the powerful pilots' unions at the big carriers to throttle back their opposition to them. American Airlines has finally ordered jets from Bombardier and Embraer, after making a deal with its 9,000 pilots on who would fly them, a contentious point in the negotiations that narrowly averted a strike by the pilots' union earlier this year. American and the pilots have agreed on the acquisition of 67 regional jets, capped at 70 seats, to be flown by American Eagle pilots, who typically earn $35,000 a year--a third...