Word: successful
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...government and industry all competing for the services of faculty, there has developed a pattern of relatively rapid turnover." As a result, Nason finds, "one's personal loyalty centers on one's profession, not on the college, which becomes a way station on the road to professional success. Faculty members are less inclined to identify themselves with their present institution. After all, it is only human nature and common sense not to become too involved in a community in which one is only a transient rather than a permanent member...
...Payrau has also had some success with calf corneas, though they usually do not retain so much transparency as those of dogs. But his most exotic source of supply is a species of small shark, the lesser spotted dogfish (Scyliorhinus caniculus). Its cornea has the advantage of not swelling in water, which made it attractive to Dr. Payrau for patients whose eyes leak fluid, though it is thin and fragile and retains only moderate transparency...
...Americans can move very far from home these days without running into a squat, silent (except for a few rumbles) salesman who has become an unbelievable success by indulging its customers' penchant for convenience, impulse buying and gadgetry. The salesman is the ubiquitous vending machine, before which Americans stoop, bow and jingle coins as if it were a roadside shrine. The machines usually come through, too, and with less fist-pounding than ever before. Some 4,500,000 of them-or one for every 43 Americans -now dispense everything from gum to gardenias to greeting cards at the drop...
Married. William G. Mennen Jr., 51, Soapy's cousin, second in command (after Older Brother George) of the family's shaving cream-and-lotion company, who is largely credited with giving Mennen its sweet smell of success; and Audrey Holzwarth Wardell, 42, Morristown, N.J., secretary; both for the second time; in San Francisco...
Imitation of Christ. The son of a former Swedish Prime Minister and a brilliant economist in his own right, Hammarskjöld was a meteoric success as a banker even before he entered international politics. Yet Markings shows that every step of the way he was dogged by agonizing self-doubts and despair. "Time goes by," he noted, "reputation increases, ability declines." "The little urchin makes a couple of feeble hops on one leg without falling down," he wrote, "and is filled with admiration at his dexterity, doubly so, because there are onlookers. Do we ever grow...