Word: successful
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...most unusual brokerage house dedicated to the proposition that eager -- and well-heeled -- investors can be found almost anywhere among the hills and dales of America. Jones' energetic corps of 1,273 brokers, who almost never set foot in towns with more than 25,000 people, has enjoyed solid success in outposts from Spearfish, S. Dak., to Broken Bow, Neb., that such big-time competitors as Dean Witter Reynolds and Merrill Lynch have virtually ignored. Based in the St. Louis suburb of Maryland Heights, Jones ranks just 43rd among brokerage firms in total capital ($82.5 million), but no investment company...
...modern-day convention would only create chaos and destroy the subtleties, language and spirit of the 1787 document. If our elected representatives cannot resolve through legislative action issues now facing us such as the deficit, a balanced budget and government waste, then how could they possibly make a success of a constitutional convention...
Five years ago, in his comeback race for Governor, Dukakis had to be coaxed into talking at all about his father Panos, who died in 1979, and his mother Euterpe. Now he revels in it. "Each of my parents is an American success story," Dukakis boasts in his standard stump speech. "My father, eight years after he came to this country as a 15-year-old Greek immigrant, was entering medical school . . . My mother was the first Greek girl ever to go beyond high school in Haverhill, Mass...
...land of Karl Marx and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the specter of apostasy imposed from above. What Gorbachev calls a "revolution" is to be accomplished by the beginning of the 21st century, and he seems to have every intention of being around, and in power, to pronounce it a success...
Gorbachev's ability to redirect Soviet foreign policy will thus partly depend on the success of his domestic reforms. If the drive for economic efficiency leads the Soviets to permit a greater degree of internal freedom, the pressure for foreign expansion could diminish. Though doubtful that this is in the works, Pipes concedes, "In the long run, changes domestically could lead to a change in foreign policy. The need for the party to justify itself by alleging a threat from abroad could disappear...