Word: successful
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Other anti-inflation measures stand a better chance. After the stunning success of airline deregulation, a coalition of Democrats and Republicans will try to remove the red tape that limits competition among railways and trucking lines. There also will be an attempt to reduce the blizzard of regulations from federal agencies that cost American business an estimated $150 billion a year...
Meanwhile, the king's heir breaks away from the gypsies and lives in hiding. He sings and waits tables for a living and has a strawberry-blonde girlfriend. For him this spells success. However, the gypsy heritage which he uses to woo women comes back to haunt him. His grandfather, the only person who ever showed him any kindness, is dying. Dave is summoned and the old man, after bestowing his kingship on his grandson, dies peacefully. Grief and blood follows between the betrayed son Groffo and the rewarded grandson Dave, who renounces the old man's legacy...
...President, however, faces much less success with his proposal for "real wage insurance." Under it, groups of employees who settle within the wage guidelines would get income tax credits if inflation were to rise above 7% this year. The measure goes to Capitol Hill this week, but so many Congressmen believe that the plan would be an administrative nightmare that it is virtually dead...
Presiding over this dignified conclave was Ron DiNicola, another disappointment to my fantasies of illiterate pugilists. Rocky Balboa's mother would have wanted her son to look like Ron, handsome and unscarred. He talked about a sport he loved and one in which he had achieved considerable success. In 1975, he had won the lightweight championship of the Marine Corps, an organization whose members are noted for their willingness to battle...
Costello's recording history is one of those success stories that's satisfying because the artist deserves every bit of acclaim he's received. His first album, recorded with only a bassist and drummer backing him, shocked people in 1977--forces that small hadn't produced such energetic and memorable music in ages. The follow-up only a few months later, This Year's Model, landed on the public almost too soon--it was hard to believe one man could write that many great songs so fast, and record them so well. This Year's Model added an organ...