Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...humanity, his million-watt smile makes him immediately likable, even swoonworthy. In Risky Business, Top Gun and The Color of Money, he effused an unselfconscious self- confidence, an anachronistic but winning spirit of American go-get. In an ideal suburbia, Cruise is the boy next door, most likely to succeed...
...accounts are in better shape this year because Graham is holding $1,000-a-day seminars for employees of companies like Seattle's Rainier Bank on how to succeed in business by using the Giraffe qualities of caring, sharing and risk taking. Maybe it's a bit much to expect a bank employee to be as fearless as Giraffe L.C. Coonse, a high school chemistry teacher in Granite Falls, N.C., who discovered that an incinerator was producing toxic fumes and, over community opposition, shut it down. How many of us could live up to the example of Carrie Barefoot Dickerson...
Thanks to a sleepy incumbent and a seemingly lightweight rival candidate, the Democrats may succeed in recapturing the White House on themes of "management" and "competence," without invoking the dreaded "L" word or the ideas behind it. And after a decade of Republican hypocrisy -- especially after what happened to Walter Mondale's small experiment in straight talk four years ago -- the Democrats may be entitled to one hypocritical victory of their own. But the next one they should try to win fair and square...
...channel if you don't get what you want. And many movies these days are less adolescent than infantile, spinning fables in which youth is its own reward. The summer hit Big teaches that a 13-year-old boy can find love with the proper career woman and succeed in business without really trying. Who'd ever care to be a grownup when childhood is portrayed as so pure, so powerful, so enlightenedly selfish...
...efforts could succeed in attracting visitors in time for the fall and winter holidays. The Tourism Ministry is working with New York City's Grey Entertainment & Media company to launch a new campaign next month. The theme: "See Israel. See for yourself." If the demonstrations continue to taper off and Israel is replaced in the news by other world events, there still seems to be a chance that more tourists will do just that...