Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fell silent on the Golan Heights, hostile political shelling within Israel threatened to cut short the life of its budding new government. Factional bitterness and personal acrimony over the choice of Premier-designate Yitzhak Rabin's new 19-member coalition Cabinet have clouded prospects for his long-term success. A thin majority of the 120-member Knesset (Parliament) will probably approve Rabin this week as the country's fifth and youngest (52) Premier.* Nonetheless, many observers believe that new elections, perhaps later this year, must come if Rabin is to secure the mandate he needs to provide Israel...
Giscard made a point of making public a private warning that he had given to his newly named ministers. "We are here to change France, not to build our careers," he told them, adding that "you will be judged by the success or failure of your personal management." That was Giscard's way of announcing that the new president of France would be quick to shuffle his Cabinet if trouble arises, as it well could, given the country's economic uncertainties and Giscard's costly campaign promises to raise the pay and improve working conditions for millions...
Real Rumble. The disaster cycle was triggered by the recent success of The Poseidon Adventure, a star-laden epic of escape from an ocean liner turned upside down by a capricious tidal wave. Poseidon has grossed $141 million so far, bringing its studio, 20th Century-Fox, $72 million in profit. Such success does not go unimitated in Hollywood, and the studios have now flung themselves into a lemming-like race for the quintessential cataclysm...
Like Roth, Peter Tarnopol, the narrator of his main story, is a hater of patterns, above all the repetitions of success. "The golden boy of American literature" at 26, Tarnopol has "a boundless belief in my ability to win." Why not? He has "never before been defeated." Graduated summa cum laude from Brown after a triumphant Yonkers boyhood, he manages to convert Army service in Germany into a prizewinning novel, A Jewish Father...
...self-loathing that crippled Joplin. Hers may well prove a more durable talent. "The danger in this business is hanging around with too many people and listening to everybody," says Bell. "I listen 1% to my managers and the other 99% to myself." In view of Maggie's success, those seem to be pretty good odds...