Word: successful
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Nonexistent a year ago, forged on the anvil of a single issue, one of the most effective lobbies in Washington today is that of Greek Americans. Their grievance is the Turkish occupation of Cyprus, and they have had remarkable success in helping persuade Congress to cut off military aid to Turkey because of its invasion of the Mediterranean island country. Greece and Turkey, of course, are NATO allies; in legitimate pursuit of their special concerns, the Greek Americans have complicated U.S. efforts to mediate an already complex situation on NATO's southern flank...
...goal of the ERA strategy adopted by the convention is to see to it that four more out of the remaining twenty states ratify the amendment before March 1979. Koryne Horbal, a member of the NWPC Administrative Committee of Minnesota, said at a strategy planning workshop. "The key to success next year must be to get people to take ERA seriously as a civil rights issue that goes far beyond the women's movement...
...Success has brought Elton the rock star's de rigueur lifestyle, which may be summed up as a frantic losing effort to spend his money faster than he makes it. But like his goofy glasses and flamboyant finery, his high-rolling existence may be one of the less important things about him. It has always contrasted with the strongest element in his music: a sweet, pensively expressed sense of sadness over human connections missed or lost...
Other than these flurries, he has become increasingly relaxed about his success. He took it in stride when critics said he had sold out, edging in toward the musical center line they so deplore -as if there were something deplorable about pop music's actually being popular. They also observed that Elton was derivative-at one moment of the Rolling Stones, at another of Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, whomever. In fact, everyone in pop is influenced by others at one time or another. How can it be otherwise in a tight little world where the assimilation of newer, farther...
That is what he thought-not entirely seriously-as he looked up from the bottom line in the late '60s and saw the life-styles that success was buying for his rock contemporaries. Now, of course, he has it all. "Really, I don't think I'll ever be able to spend all my money," he sighs, but he gives it a good shot. Like many pop stars, he is wildly generous with those who have demonstrated their loyalty to him (see box page 40). Not that he stints on himself; he bops constantly from his home...