Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three creators have their own career dreams riding on the film's success. Two years ago Jackson was No. 1 on the hot parade, but his penchant for reclusiveness and prolonged sessions in the recording studio (his new album, delayed several times, is due to be released in January) have dimmed his star power. Coppola has not made a hit film since Apocalypse Now in 1979. Lucas has sponsored a couple of expensive duds this summer (Labyrinth and Howard the Duck) and has seen his hugely profitable Star Wars merchandise inch toward the remainder shelves...
Whatever the lasting significance of the Alexandria summit, the two leaders went to some effort to demonstrate that it was a psychological success. At the close of the first session, Mubarak told reporters, "We have concentrated heavily on the Palestinian issue, which is vitally important for the peace process. I think the Israeli position is improving a lot." For his part, Peres declared that the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza Strip "have a right to participate in the determination of their own future," and that Israelis "have no desire to dominate another people." Later he added...
...only about a tenth as much as in the LAK treatments. As a result, few serious side effects were apparent. With the addition of cyclophosphamide, a drug that Rosenberg believes suppresses immune-system cells that might otherwise impede the TIL cells, the treatment achieved its spectacular success rates. Most important, the combined therapy cured mice of advanced colon cancers that in parallel animal experiments had withstood the LAK cells. Can TIL immunotherapy work in humans? "There are some questions," says Dr. Alexander Fefer, a University of Washington researcher who has pioneered in the development of T cells that target malignancies...
...marked the second coming of cocaine. It was the perfect drug for the Me generation. "The new morality of young America is success, the high- performance ethic," says University of Massachusetts Professor Ralph Whitehead. "Pot bred passivity. On alcohol you can't perform well. You smell. People can tell when you've been drinking. But cocaine fits the new value system. It feeds it and confounds it. Young adults walk a tight line between high performance and self-indulgence, and cocaine puts the two together...
...trouble is that Americans tend to think of athletes as godlike beings. To be a professional athlete one must be an exceptional athlete, not an exceptional person. Drug use is just one way that mediocre individuals respond to financial success...