Word: lucked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other than luck, what an oilman needs most is persistence. Marvin Davis has plenty of both. The bulky son of a dress manufacturer from Newark, Davis made his first billion dollars in less than 20 years as a Denver-based wildcatter with a salesman's knack for raising capital and a blessed instinct for drilling gushers. Now, amid the takeover frenzy gripping the airline industry, Davis has set his cap for a giant carrier...
...have attributed much of your success to luck. What role does ambition play...
...think there's such a thing as serendipity. You have to be lucky. You have to be at the right place at the right time. But once you are lucky, you have to know what to do with your luck. And I knew what to do with my luck...
...what end? To entertain, of course, but to do more than that. By junking the cages and building vast biological gardens, the zoos provide a decent, delightful place for animals and people to meet and, with luck, fall in love. Once that bond is made, the visitors discover there is a larger mission at hand, a crusade to join. Between the birth of Christ and the Pilgrims' landing, perhaps several species a year became extinct. By the 1990s the extinction rate may reach several species an hour, around the clock. American zoos are leading the battle to stop that clock...
...Home Shopping Network in Clearwater, Fla., has bought into a spree of bad luck. The company, which markets consumer goods on its phone-in TV shows, has made a series of ill-advised acquisitions; its stock price has slipped from a 1987 high of $47 a share to less than $4; and it faces a class-action stockholder lawsuit. Last week came more bad news. A jury in Pinellas County ordered HSN to pay GTE $100 million in libel damages. That is the largest libel award in history...