Word: successful
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Even as U.S. robotmakers wallowed in their early success, the Japanese, who imported their first hydraulic robot in 1967, were coming up with a new product. Fitted with high-speed computer chips and sophisticated circuitry, the new electric machines received instructions via computer-software programs. The machines tended to be smaller, less expensive ($5,000 to $40,000 each) and not as prone to breakdowns as their U.S. hydraulic counterparts. - Though electric robots were less powerful, and thus less capable of heavy industrial tasks, their greater accuracy in tasks such as delicate manipulation and precision welding made them more attractive...
...citizens' group called the Committee on the Constitutional System, headed by Washington Lawyer Lloyd Cutler, former Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon and Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, has been pressing for revisions in that spirit. "In the parliamentary systems of Western Europe and Japan . . . the Prime Minister's success rate is very close to 100%," says Cutler, former counsel to President Carter. "The American system today is only four-fifths as efficient when we achieve party government and only two- thirds as efficient when we have divided government...
...fact, his manner and his voice were basic to his success, creating an illusion of ordinariness. This was not unplanned. Nothing in the use of his only instrument -- himself -- ever was. A cool calculator of effects, a steely perfectionist in execution, he always affected astonishment over adulation. As Mikhail Baryshnikov said, Astaire often seemed to stand wryly outside himself, observing his work as wonderingly as anyone else...
...about 250 from 700. But porn video is booming. It now accounts for $1 billion in rentals and sales. Indeed, most porn "movies" today are not films but tapes made directly for the bedroom market. From this view, the Reagan counterrevolution in morality looks to be a roaring success: sex is back in the home, where it belongs. The twist is that...
Instead of gloating over this West German's success in penetrating the Soviet air-defense system, maybe the American public should ask itself if the same stunt could be performed...