Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gibson said the present suit is a "lastditch effort" to postpone the tax, but he would not speculate on its chances for success...
...early 1950s, the investigators willfully confused prediction with preference until it became plausible to say, as one of them did, that the Foreign Service officers "planned to slowly choke to death and destroy the government of the Republic of China and build up the Chinese Communists for postwar success...
Dunce Cap. The success of Appointment in Samarra (1934) bolstered O'Hara's self-esteem without relieving an iota of his insecurity. The novelist of the future, he protested, will take "the best of James Joyce, the best of William Faulkner, the best of Sinclair Lewis, the best of Ernest Hemingway and, naturally, the best of me." Reviewers who praised him received pathetically vulnerable letters of thanks...
...Broadway earning a total of $10,000 a week. Eighteen months ago, when Producer Hal Prince brought Candide to Broadway, he asked the union if he could use only 13 musicians. It insisted on 25 players, costing Prince an additional $180,960 a year. Despite Candide's success, the show is still in the red. Complains Prince: "If I didn't have to pay the extra musicians, I would have paid back my investors. They would have come into new shows. As it is, I have lost a lot of them...
...forward eagerly. But despite Scarf's own enthusiasm, the initial reception from the Times was "frosty." She submitted the article anyway and a week later the same woman called her to say, "We're buying your article. Who are you?" Scarf credits her tenacity rather than luck for her success with the Times. "You don't need pull" to have an article read, Scarf says, adding, "They read everything." But, she emphasizes, "you need the ability to be vulnerable and take a chance...