Word: successful
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Hofheinz said the Chinese are especially interested in learning about business management here. "The Chinese are self-admittedly backward in the field of management and think of the U.S., perhaps incorrectly, as a great success," he added...
...Weir is one of its pioneers. With the assistance of the South Australian film Corporation, recently established by a culturally alert state Labor government, Weir made Picnic at Hanging Rock. Well-received at the Cannes film Festival in 1976, the film has only recently been released here following the success of Weir's later Last Wave...
...equipment. Right now they are using borrowed equipment, and they won't be able to buy their own until they begin getting gigs. In the meantime, Chip is finishing school, Rob and Gardner are working and Ruskin is spending all his time trying to make his band a success...
Today's Met is capable of extremes of success and failure. Its record with Wagner, for example, is a wrecked new production and a brilliant one in the last two seasons. Last year's Tannhauser remains a model of creative fidelity to the essence of an opera; this year's Flying Dutchman is a travesty, fusing roles and entirely subverting the opera's dramatic and musical content. In its casts, too, the Met's standards fluctuate widely. It's a long way down from the near-ideal Parsifal of this spring to the dismal Norma playing at the same time...
...institution--big, rich and powerful. Bernard says, "I loved Harvard. But I also saw that it was a big corporation, fairly insensitive to people's needs." Concern for those needs became a major issue in the strike. Students subsequently worked with tenants' groups in Cambridge and Roxbury, with mixed success. The strikers helped pressure the University into building a housing complex in Roxbury; three buildings in that project are named after Harvard students. They did not, however, halt Harvard's expansion, didn't prevent rent increases in Harvard-owned buildings, didn't save houses from demolition. "But failing there doesn...