Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just glad everybody had a good time," said Lawrence, adding, "The event was such a success that I hope it will become a yearly occurence...
From the Blake Babies' "quirky pop" music to the Bullet LaVolta's "melodic punk metal" and the Lemonheads' "melodic punk," the night was "a rousing success," said Clay B. Tarver '88, who plays guitar for Bullet LaVolta...
...business during the previous decade. Wedtech's profits jumped from $8 million in 1981 to more than $72 million for the first six months of 1986, and the company became a potent symbol of minority achievement. On a 1984 visit to New York City, Ronald Reagan lauded Wedtech's success. "People like John Mariotta," said the President, "are heroes...
...recent months federal and local prosecutors have made clear that Wedtech is not a fable of small-business success but a morality tale of outsize greed and corruption and the perversion of good intentions. Wedtech prospered, prosecutors say, as a result of promiscuous bribery of city, state and federal officials and a conspiracy to win government contracts by fraudulently depicting itself as a minority-owned business. Wedtech's rise and fall is more than just another example of New York's current convulsion of corruption; the company's overreaching may have stretched even to the White House. A special prosecutor...
Boston's musical past suggests why an attempt to recognize Boston's music scene and to attribute such importance to it is unlikely to succeed. Twenty years ago, when San Francisco was hailed as the breeding ground for innovative rock music, record executives had similar success in mind for Boston, for no particularly good reason. They convinced Boston musicians--and themselves--that the "Bosstown Sound" was going to be the Next Big Thing. The public didn't buy it, though, and such memorable local bands as Phluph, Ultimate Spinach, and Beacon Street Union found themselves millionaires one month and broke...