Word: successful
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Commercial success for the minitube is also a life-or-death issue for Britain's Sinclair Radionics, which has shown itself adept at technology but unlucky at marketing. The firm was founded in 1962 to make and sell transistor radios developed by Clive Sinclair; he had soaked up a knowledge of electronics while working as a writer for a British company that specialized in technical manuals. By 1967 he had diversified into hi-fi systems. A few years later, he introduced the elegant, expensive and popular line of "Executive" calculators in Europe and the U.S. But in 1975 such...
Capp, who grew up Dogpatch poor in New Haven and Bridgeport, Conn., originated Li'I Abner in 1934. It was the first humorous strip to attempt serious political satire and was an almost instant success, appearing in roughly 900 newspapers by the late 1960s. At his peak, Capp earned more than $500,000 a year from the strip and its numerous spinoffs, including a Broadway musical and two movies...
...first Die Meister singer. For opening night next year, Fox has even hired Broadway Director Harold Prince (A Little Night Music) to concoct a new sauce for that classic spaghetti western, Puccini's The Girl of the Golden West. To Carol Fox, the formula for aesthetic and commercial success is as simple as a C-major scale. Says she "All I want is the best." - William Bender
...importance and effectiveness of Amnesty International's human rights efforts came in the form of criticism of the organization by such frequent targets of Amnesty charges as the regimes in Eastern Europe, South Africa and Chile. The western governments in particular have been sensitive to Amnesty International's success in effecting a shift in international opinion, a shift that is gradually sapping the international political and economic support without which these notoriously repressive regimes could not long survive...
...Saturday's success was more than a matter of doing the same old things better than before. Dartmouth proved against Yale a week ago that a football team has got to be flexible. Carm Cozza's charges have been lining up in that Power I for years, daring the opposition to stop them. Harvard took Ivy League titles in 1974 and 1975 by doing just that, throwing the whole defense against the Eli running game and holding that line...