Word: successful
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...charts. But their signal influence was closer to home. In the '60s, Bond spawned a whole genre of superspy imitators: Matt Helm and Harry Palmer in movies, Maxwell Smart and the men from U.N.C.L.E. on TV. Later a young generation of filmmakers found inspiration in the series' success. The past decade of high-tech adventure movies, from Star Wars to Raiders of the Lost Ark to RoboCop, would be unimaginable without the brut effervescence and special-effects expertise bottled in Bond...
Contra's manufacturer, Illinois-based Konami, insists that the name was chosen last October, long before the Iran-contra affair hit the headlines, and that the game's success is based mainly on its exciting electronic action. But it certainly does not hurt sales to have the name of the game mentioned on TV dozens of times...
...spirited game evolved from the famous sporting rides of the cossacks. In this view, games occurred spontaneously on the Russian steppes, with peasants hurling stones up at the fabled horsemen in attempts to achieve outs, while the free- swinging cossacks were responsible for most of the offense. The amazing success of the cossacks, who often went undefeated for decades at a time, is sometimes cited by Izvestia as proof that polo as well as baseball originated in sports-minded Russia...
...turned out, Rajiv Gandhi was not injured. Nonetheless, the attack was a painful reminder to the Prime Minister of how much strife and distrust had been aroused by the pact he had just initialed -- and how uncertain were its chances of success. For four years Sri Lanka, a teardrop of an island off India's southern coast, has been plagued by a vicious battle that has claimed more than 6,000 lives. Pitting the Sinhalese majority against the minority Tamils, the conflict has not only imperiled Jayewardene's government but threatened to drag New Delhi further into a war that...
...signed the bill without a complement of aides and legislators crowding around him. Why none of the hoopla that sometimes accompanies such signings? The President, said a spokesman, was signaling his belief that the new law "throws too much money at programs that have a mixed record" of success...