Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stickier problems has in fact cropped up in this year's protest over the comparative politics seminar. The course is not required. But it is, students say, effectively required because the material is essential to success on the general exam in comparative politics...
...Crimson's success in the singles was not enough, the doubles meant double trouble for the other squads in the tournament...
Welles was 70 last May, so it is probably time for people to stop calling him an aging boy wonder and recognize that his is one of the saddest stories of success and failure in American life. Sad because such enormous promise has remained so unfulfilled for so long. Welles was 16 when he talked his way into his first starring role at Dublin's Gate Theater; 18 when he toured the U.S. as Mercutio in Katharine Cornell's version of Romeo and Juliet; 20 when he wowed New York by staging an all-black Macbeth; 22 when he became...
...industry was setting a 10% to 12% pace. Earnings slipped sharply during the quarter ending in June, falling to $77 million from $111 million a year earlier. Says William Leach, an analyst with Wall Street's Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette: "General Foods just seems to have an inability to bring success down to the bottom line. A company like Sara Lee, which has a much weaker market position and fewer glamorous products, is turning out consistently more impressive earnings year after year...
...performance of General Foods' new products, a crucial sign of success for a food company, has been uneven. While the cereal division's Fruit & Fibre took off fast when it was introduced in 1982, another cereal, a blue concoction called Smurf-Berry Crunch, flopped...