Word: successful
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Callaghan's main accomplishment has been to turn the economy around, a feat that was aided by both the expected gush of North Sea oil and his success in holding the line on wages. According to Gallup, the electorate now believes that Labor can do a better job than the Conservatives in controlling inflation. Even such a stalwart establishment organ as the Financial Times praised Callaghan for giving Britain "almost as good a conservative government as we are likely...
Spending $500 million to expand in the beer business, Miller introduced the 7-oz. "pony" bottle and bought the Lite label for its low-calorie brew, which became a runaway success; Miller staged a high-budget ad campaign that featured Mickey Spillane and ex-Football Star Bubba Smith to give a macho image to Lite. In order to crack the highest-priced market segment, which has been dominated by Anheuser-Busch's Michelob and imports, Miller last October began national sales of Lowenbrau made under license in its U.S. breweries...
...knuckle reputation. It was founded by William M. Keck, a flamboyant wildcatter ever on the alert for new oil, fresh profits and the main chance. In this pursuit, President Howard B. Keck, who took over at his father's death in 1964, is also relentless. Superior's success at sniffing out crude deposits has made it a darling of the New York Stock Exchange; last week its shares shot up 18 points to hit 279 and thus become the highest priced stock on the Big Board, ahead of IBM. Highly profitable (earnings were $51 million in 1976), Superior...
DIED. Bergen Evans, 73, popular, irreverent professor of English at Northwestern University (1932-75) who gained national recognition as a lexicographer and television host; after a long illness; in Highland Park, ILL. After the success of his 1946 book The Natural History of Nonsense, which wittily debunked old wives' tales, Evans became the moderator of two '50s quiz shows, Down You Go and The Last Word, and wrote queries for The $64,000 Question (he was absolved in that show's rigging scandal). Evans was also author of A Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage and Dictionary...
...narrow revolutionary ideology and military approach, and instead enlist the support of all Somoza opponents in a pluralistic coalition. With the increasing political support of non-Socialist groups such as the Conservative Party and the "radical Christians," the Sandinista effort to topple the dictatorial Somoza regime appears bound for success...