Word: successful
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...This is a big play for us and a tough play for them," Restic said. "They've made a big play defensively and all the sudden they lose the ball. That just turns the game around. They get it down there, and if they have some success they go in and score and get back in the ball game...
James M. Verdier, a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School, said the plan was a "terrific success story" in Massachusetts, but added he was not certain it could be enforced nationally. He pointed to the fact that the federal IRS is currently better structured tax collection program than the one in Massachusetts in 1983, saying it is questionable "whether you can turn the enforcement screws any tighter...
...humor, beauty and success, Close says she has found it "difficult to balance love and career." Her first marriage, at 21, to Rock Guitarist Cabot Wade, lasted three years, as did her second, to James Marlas, a Manhattan venture capitalist. The man in her life now is Producer John Starke, 37, who worked with her on Garp and is her partner in developing film projects. The two are expecting their first child in April or May. Unlike Alex but rather like her favorite heroine, Jenny Fields, the defiantly unwed mother of Garp, Close has no plans to marry...
Into the Woods cannot change the situation by itself or even by example. For one thing, imitation is a less viable route to success in the theater than in prime-time TV. For another, only Sondheim is Sondheim. Says Composer- Lyricist Jerry Herman, author of La Cage aux Folles and Hello, Dolly: "We would all agree that Steve is the genius of the group, the one who keeps on taking the musical theater to new places." What Into the Woods does, gloriously, is make the case for what musicals might be, blending innovation and old-fashioned storytelling into an elixir...
...secret of Powell's success seems to be a combination of scrupulous efficiency and disarming charm. His tenure at the NSC is a case in point. Powell is given a good deal of the credit for restoring order and collective confidence to an organization that was fractured and demoralized during the Iran-contra scandal. As Weinberger's de facto chief of staff from 1983 to 1986, Powell knew early on of the Administration's secret arms sales to Iran. Weinberger told the Washington Post last spring that Powell "was the person I used to carry out the President's directions...