Word: successful
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...Raymond, a mechanical engineer from M.I.T. and the founder of Benthos in North Falmouth, the world's leading maker of oceanographic equipment, suggests that Massachusetts has an equation for success. "There's a mother lode of talent in this state," says Raymond. "Combine that with the liberal ethic and you have a society that stimulates creativity." That is precisely what Governor Dukakis wants to accomplish: to make the state work "so that the extraordinary becomes a permanent fixture." For a state that has traditionally made the extraordinary ordinary, that should not be so hard a task. -- By Lance Morrow. Reported...
...language of the globe. Surrounded on one side by snowcapped mountains, on the other by chill Pacific waters, the San Francisco of Canada, as it is often called, now has an additional adornment, a world's fair. Open since the beginning of the month, Expo 86 is already a success by the most firmly pedestrian standard: crowds are standing in line to love...
What self-respecting alumnus gives money, year-in and year-out, to a losing cause? Like it or not, success and its fellow-traveler--money--have always been the standards by which sports are judged...
...order for the drugs to work, doctors have to be able to determine who has AIDS as soon as possible. "It's like the early detection of cancer. If we were to use the drugs at the very earliest stages of the disease, the chances of success are greater," Essex says...
Haseltine predicts that this venture will be a success. "Within a year there will be more sensitive, more accurate tests," he says...