Word: successful
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...educated. There are no more unskilled jobs. There is no place to go." Others think the new bands will fade, just as most older ones did. "Gangs last only as long as members can't make it in the mainstream," says UCLA Psychologist Rex Beaber. "As the expectations of success go up, the need for the protective gang enclave diminishes." One scholar already sees some reason for hope in Miami. The offspring of the brutal Marielitos seem to be different from their parents, reports University of Miami Sociologist Jerome Wolfe. "The children have been no great social problem," he says...
With his new success he fell back in love with rescues. In 1979, during the Iranian Cultural Revolution, two EDS executives were taken captive by the anti-West government of the Ayatollah Khomeini. They were put in jail with 13,000 other political prisoners...
...nightsa-week cable TV show with guest stars, is just as big a hit. Every night about 3,000 callers try to get through. She's got a book out, Dr. Ruth's Guide to Good Sex, with three more in the works. She's a great success...
...news in Houston was the remarkable success of alpha interferon (one of the three major types of the substance) in fighting an unusual cancer known as hairy-cell leukemia (because of the hairy appearance of the malignant cells). The disease is usually treated by removing the patient's spleen, but this seems to help in only about half the cases. For the other half, there was no viable treatment until interferon was tried. Two reports presented at the conference showed that interferon can be effective in up to 90% of hairy-cell patients, greatly reducing or completely reversing all signs...
Today's steady ratings' climb can be traced partly to the growing success of NBC's prime-time fare; according to a broadcasting maxim, some morning viewers watch whatever station they left the dial on the night before. The show has also profited from hitting the road. Pauley and Co-Host Bryant Gumbel broadcast the program live from Rome for a week in early April, then Gumbel traveled solo to Viet Nam to mark the tenth anniversary of the Communist takeover. In late May the Today stars and staff -- 47 people in all -- traveled 2,500 miles on a specially...