Word: successful
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...result of its success, Operation Banco may become a prototype for narcotics investigations across the nation. DEA agents in New York City are already working with the IRS and the Federal Reserve Bank. The Government hopes that the ubiquitous computer will prove to be the best sleuth yet in tracking illegal drug traders...
...successor as Prime Minister. "It is a great office," he said, "a wonderful privilege, and for a woman to occupy that office is, I think, a tremendous moment in the country's history. Therefore, everybody must on behalf of all our people wish her well and wish her success...
...majority government that appears capable of ruling the country for a full five-year term. That electoral stability allows Thatcher to confront the unions head on?if she so chooses. The big question facing Britain now is whether the determined Iron Lady, having gained the pinnacle of political success, will act according to the sharp words that sometimes marked her campaign rhetoric, or the conciliatory ones of St. Francis that she quoted so movingly on the doorstep...
...solved, one of the local doctors pondered and said, "Immaqa" (maybe). At the end of her home rule speech the Queen said: "Gûtip Kalâtdlit-Nunât sianigiliuk " (God bless Greenland). The islanders will need more than fond benedictions if they are to make a success of their semisovereign future...
...Texas Instruments Inc., which has come up with a computer chip, costing less than $5 to manufacture, that synthesizes the human voice. So far, TI has used the chip only in its $60 talking learning aid for children, called Speak & Spell; the company has been marketing it with considerable success since last September. The red and yellow plastic device asks wide-eyed kids and fascinated adults to spell words as easy as was or as difficult as quotient by punching out the letters on a keyboard. It then responds, "That is correct," or "That is incorrect," and gives...