Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Exhibitors called the fair a success. "It provides a lot of information and business was brisk," said Judy Walker, a child care advisor with Harvard/Radcliffe Child Care...
THIS is the key to Heritage USA's success. The ministry plays on the wide-eyed dreams of poor folks--luring them in with promises of a cheap vacation in a grandiose building. One elderly woman I met, who had admired Tammy Faye on a local T.V. show years ago, had dragged her husband here for an affordable retirement vacation. Their one-time donation of $1000 was supposed to bring them a room every year for the rest of their lives in the new Tower--only it hasn't been completed yet and construction has been stalled...
Salerno topped the ticket in South Boston. Many attribute her success in the inner-city to her housing policy...
Brodsky's success in exile has been based on a comparatively modest output: three books of poems translated into English and a collection of essays, Less Than One, published last year. Yet his imagination, steeped in classical and European traditions, seems familiar and accessible to Western readers. Brodsky is a lyricist of loss, of the slipping away of the past, loved ones, youth; his customary tone is one of passion tempered by hard-earned irony. His poems rely heavily on visual impressions, as in this look at the scenery surrounding a state farm: "The horses, inflated casks/ of ribs trapped...
Some of the success stories were monumental. British Corporate Raider Sir James Goldsmith, 54, got out of the market well in advance of calamity. In late August he sold his 29% share of Occidentale Generale, a $1.55 billion Paris-based holding company that controls, among other things, the Grand Union supermarket chain, French publishing interests and vast stretches of Northeast U.S. timberland. Goldsmith's profit: $450 million. Having fled the market, Goldsmith declared, "I am a spectator, and will remain a spectator for the time being." An important factor that prompted Goldsmith to bail out of the market...