Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, a spectacular commercial success. As discoverer-manager of the Beatles, he personally earned $14 million in five years. Yet he was right about his life; it was the ache of being a failed actor and an outsider among the Beatles that most pained Epstein...
...force and preference, she has thumbed her perky nose at glamour and the constraining star system. In 1963 and 1964, she won Tony awards for her first big Broadway roles, the sensitive social worker in A Thousand Clowns and the delectable mistress in Any Wednesday. For her next big success, the screen version of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, in which she played the frightened young faculty wife, she won a supporting-actress Oscar, skipped the presentation ceremonies, and gave the Oscar to her business manager...
More in awe than anger, a competitor once declared that Henry John Kaiser was successful because he was ignorant-"he never knew what he couldn't do." Kaiser put it another way: "If I don't dream I'll make it, I won't even get close." Whatever the reason for his success, Henry Kaiser, who died last week at 85 while asleep at his home in Hawaii, put together a remarkable complex of companies that turn out 300 kinds of products in 180 plants in 41 countries and have assets of nearly $3 billion...
Despite the widely noted success of Schweppes, Yardley's and Beatles records, British exports to the large and lucrative U.S. consumer market are rarely worth the effort. One reason is that British manufacturers are unfamiliar with U.S. sizes and forget that its warmer climate generally calls for light er fabrics. Another is that they do not understand the quantities in which the U.S. buys. "When the U.S. wants fish hooks," an American buyer recently told a visiting British businessman, "she wants them in millions." To provide the millions-and to help their nation improve its trade balance-a group...
...that, acting on "research into selling methods abroad and market research at home," the Czech refrigerator industry introduced free installations and delivery service. And when the domestic TV industry recently faced a serious production surplus, it took some advice from the marketing researcher and started TV rentals, with great success...