Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more potent, though, is the controversy over Bush's Iran-contra role. It provides a rare window on how the Vice President performs when he is close to the Oval Office. Before the debate, a few Bush strategists were arguing with little success that the Vice President should offer a public apology. The , failure of any Republican to press the issue during the Friday night debate renewed hopes that he might ride out the storm. But if Bush is the nominee, it is an issue the Democrats are sure to revive in the fall...
...principal lyricist, Lloyd Webber chose Charles Hart, 26, a novice who had only one previous, unperformed musical to his credit; in counterbalance, the composer tapped the veteran director Hal Prince, 59, who * had contributed so much to the success of Evita. Lloyd Webber composed the role of Christine with his wife Sarah Brightman's crystalline voice and fragile Pre-Raphaelite looks in mind. The trick was casting the Opera Ghost. His choice was British Actor Michael Crawford, 45, whom he had heard sing in the 1979 London show Flowers for Algernon and who had appeared in such films...
...club's recent success has also won them a $300 grant from the Undergraduate Council to establish a bridge library, said Cole. However, he said they have been unable to find a location...
...rushed to indulge its inanities and curl into its warmth, to google like proud relatives when the infant appears at a construction site in a pink hard hat, or when Selleck tries, too manfully, to diaper his fidgety bundle for the first time. There is nothing sinister about the success of a bad picture that makes people feel good. Imagine: people want to enjoy themselves at the movies. Sometimes they can convince themselves they had a fine time even at an inferior show. It guarantees they get their money's worth...
...Gorbachev's proposal, and the reaction it stirred in Washington, served to underscore the role that surveillance technology plays in arms control. Glasnost is nice, but the success of an agreement like the new ban on intermediate-range nuclear weapons depends upon electronic eyes and ears that make sure both sides keep the deal. "Verification has always defined the outer frontiers of what we can achieve in arms control," says Kenneth Adelman, former director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and a prominent adviser to President Reagan. "We can control effectively only what we can verify...