Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Houston lawyer Arthur Dula a dreamy eccentric, or a cosmic entrepreneur? For nearly three years he has toiled with little success to find U.S. customers for the Soviet Union's space program. Undaunted, Dula scored a coup in June when the Soviet space agency named him its exclusive American business partner. The attorney now hawks everything from advertising space on Soviet rockets to tours of launching pads...
...thick album filled with letters and pictures of couples in search of a child. Jan and Dick Evans, like nearly everyone else in the book, posed smiling with their dog. "We want, in sum, to provide your child with all the benefits our own health, love and success can offer -- not to spoil, but to share," they wrote. Nicole liked that...
...children of perestroika," Fetisov said, linking the program's success to recent political changes in the Soviet Union...
WITH or without a large Harvard contingent, success should grace Saturday's marchers. The easiest way to measure this success is just to count heads. Organizers expect a million people but probably will not get more than half that. That's okay, though; even a third of a million is comparable to the largest Washington demonstrations...
...second measure of success lies in the marchers' legacy, which will depend entirely on decisions awaiting the Bush Administration. What the demonstrators want is high-priority consideration of the housing issue. What they want are answers. Will Bush and the Congress produce a housing policy to compensate for eight years of abuse and neglect at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)? Will they reinvigorate that atrophied agency, currently limping along on a $7 billion budget, slashed from $32 billion since Reagan took office...