Word: successful
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...editor in 1960, an assistant managing editor in 1963 and for the past three years has been executive editor. Terrell's versatility in writing about almost every known sport, his imagination and his journalistic judgment will surely continue to be a large ingredient of the magazine's success...
...factor in Dart Industries' success has been Tupperware, acquired in 1958 by Justin Dart over the initial opposition of his own board of directors. Since then, Tupperware sales of plastic food containers have multiplied 18 times to $187 million in 1972; its earnings currently contribute 50% of Dart Industries' net profits. Tupperware products are sold by self-employed dealers, mostly housewives, who peddle the plastic food containers at home demonstration "parties." In order to maintain the evangelical zeal of the distributors, Dart regularly holds sales jubilees at which the most successful of the housewife-saleswomen are awarded such...
While most of Leontief's colleagues praised the 67-year-old economist for his economic inventiveness, one Harvard economist was more impressed with Leontief's "wonderful success at resisting the conservative tendencies of our trade...
Along with the play of Weeks and the defense, halfback Kevin Jiggett and Hans Birle were also cited by Getchell as contributing heavily to the win. Getchell emphasized the spirit of his team as being important to its early success. "We have no stars," he said, "only nice kids...
Moon does not fit the standard image of the guru out of the East. At 53, he is, in fact, a millionaire whose holdings in various enterprises (including ginseng tea, titanium production, pharmaceuticals, air rifles) are worth perhaps $15 million. The business success has grown hand-in-hand with his religious endeavors, which began, as he tells it, with a vision of Jesus Christ on a Korean mountainside in 1936, a vision that told young Moon-then a Presbyterian-to "carry out my undone task...