Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aspirations of Labor Leader Neil Kinnock, who wants to broaden his party's appeal by staking out more moderate positions. When Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher won a third * five-year term last year, Livingstone and others on Labor's "loony left" got much of the blame for the Conservatives' success...
...effort to get restaurants to hold the line on prices and avoid the black eye earned by greedy gouge artists in Lake Placid eight years ago has met with only mixed success. "We are not going to raise our prices in any way, shape or form," says Wayne Bullard, a partner in a group that owns four restaurant- bars along the city's liveliest strip on "Electric Avenue." But only 91 of the area's 1,300 restaurants have pledged to comply with voluntary restraints...
...lobby or a team bus, when his eyes pass coolly over skiers with whom he has raced for ten years, it can be taken for the self-absorption of an egotist. So can remarks like his joking explanation to U.S. Ski Broadcaster Greg Lewis that "the name Pirmin means 'success.' " This sort of clunker is probably nothing more than the slight awkwardness of a 25-year-old athlete who is pursued by middle-aged foreigners all intent on asking why he drives a Mercedes instead of a Porsche, and whether Killy was an early hero. (Answers: "Mercedes is an excellent...
...instigators believe, would appeal to the contenders as a welcome way to armor themselves against the political pressures that they know will explode with victory. How the winner in November goes about gathering the people who will run this country will tell us more about his prospects for success than all his speeches, promises, polls and campaign prowess...
...breakthrough was as much psychological as competitive. After twice bungling his trademark triple Axel jump at the 1986 world competition, Orser set out to improve his state of mind. Sports Psychologist Peter Jensen has worked regularly with him on envisioning success, practicing success, achieving success. A gaggle of others also laid on expertise. In addition to his shrink, Orser has a nutritionist, a physical therapist, a choreographer and a figures coach (for the compulsories). Finally, and always, there is Coach Doug Leigh, who has been with Orser for 17 years...