Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Will Florentino and Fermina find happiness at the long, bitter end? Garcia Marquez answers this question eventually, but the success of his novel does not depend on the outcome. The genius of Love in the Time of Cholera is the filling-in of the gaps of ordinary life, the munificence of detail that can be exacted from a place where, as Dr. Urbino muses, "nothing had happened for four centuries." Nonetheless, the torpid scenery provides a beguiling background, "the broken roofs and the decaying walls, the rubble of fortresses among the brambles, the trail of islands...
...second-wave technology not only to bring computers to bear on problems that until now have been bypassed by the information revolution but also to extend the range and availability of human expertise. Says Edward Feigenbaum, an AI pioneer and co-author of a | forthcoming book on second-wave success stories: "Every system we have looked at improved productivity by more than an order of magnitude -- that's like the difference between a car and a jet plane...
...already feeling the weight of his considerable reputation and that it had already got too heavy just to shrug off. He was meeting his own standard, but not besting himself. He was, in a sense, just like every other designer this year: struggling with the challenge that his own success had set down...
...Square may be a victim of its own success, said Holmes, commenting that its homogenization could take away its attraction. "Now that parking is so expensive in the Square, why would anyone come here if they could get the same things at a mall?" Holmes asked. "You just don't want to kill the goose that laid the golden...
...pastor said he expected they would succeed in their quest for a permanent home, but he said they would not owe that success...