Word: successful
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Once, after reading in a magazine that she was "the world's most mysterious woman," Agatha Christie complained to her agent: "What do they suggest I am? A Bank Robber or a Bank Robber's wife? I'm an ordinary successful hard-working author--like any other author." Her success was not exactly ordinary. She produced nearly 90 novels and collections of stories in a lifetime that spanned 85 years. One of her plays, The Mousetrap, opened in London in 1952 and is still running...
...Africa and the stark realization that the Sahara was a wasteland universally considered worthless. As a result, it allocated men and money only in drips and sports. Its hesitation meant the conquests of the Sahara was not one great adventure, but a series of expeditions of varying brutality and success that established a string of forts through the middle of the desert...
Allende, a former journalist, has even scored a success in her native Chile, despite the fact that the present government came to power after the 1973 assassination of her uncle, Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens. Although the book is sympathetic to the dead leader, Chile's ruling junta has permitted the novel to pass through its stringent censorship...
...unemployment rate is only 2.7%, and layoffs are rare. In addition, the Japanese have a reason to work hard and strive for quality because some of their pay is linked to the company's fortunes. Widespread use of profit sharing, says Weitzman, is one part of the Japanese success story that the U.S. can easily and profitably emulate...
...last week's outpouring of public warmth and support for the veterans was massive and genuine beyond dispute: a gesture of splendid grandeur. As sheer spectacle, the tribute was a rousing success. It was vintage Big Apple, a ticker-tape parade through the canyons of lower Manhattan. Blizzards of litter (duly calculated to be 468 tons). Bands blaring (God Bless America and The + Caisson Song). Onlookers shouting down from skyscraping heights. Placards and posters flashing and bobbing (YOU'RE OUR HEROES and THANK YOU FOR YOUR SACRIFICES). Throngs (perhaps a million, according to police) cheering, clapping and even weeping...