Word: successful
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...nation, then the U.S. should treat it as one. Not only should this country forward the sanctions approved by the House, but diplomatic relations should be reduced to a minimum and the American government should work actively to build a consensus against South Africa as it did, with some success, against Libya and has consistently attempted to effect against the Soviet Union...
...this spring the Crimson's top eight had a lackluster year compared to their usual success and Clay said that the varsity is unlikely to send an eight to Henley...
Perhaps the most vital ingredient in Boeing's success is its willingness to bet billions of dollars, and sometimes the whole company, on new types of planes. In the late 1960s, Boeing executives risked more than $1 billion on the first jumbo jet, the 747, and nearly drove the firm into bankruptcy. A decade later Boeing rolled the dice again by investing $3 billion in the simultaneous development of two fuel-efficient, twin-engine jets, the trim 757 and the wide-body...
...Sweeney Todd (1979) has received the ultimate musical-theater accolade: being scheduled by the New York City Opera. Many of Sondheim's shows failed to recoup their investment the first time around. But unlike most songs in the genre, Sondheim's have the staying power to rebound to eventual success...
...irony. It was founded with $500 in 1920 by the journalist and scholar H.L. Mencken and the playwright George Jean Nathan as a way of financing the unprofitable Smart Set, their magazine of uptown wit and sophisticated prose. The "louse," as Mencken called his detective journal, was an immediate success, and in six months he sold it for $100,000, the price of 10 million words...