Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never in deep reductions of current ones. Yet the U.S. is convinced that the new round of talks is not just necessary but urgent. Said Secretary of State George Shultz last week: "This may be the last time to really address some of these issues with any prospect of success...
...sold more than 500,000 copies. Some critics regard Windham Hill's silky sound as yuppie Muzak, but young professionals cannot get enough of it. Sales reached $20 million last year, up 230% from 1983. Ackerman now chums with Apple Computer Chairman Steven Jobs and gives lectures on his success at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business...
...healthy majority of their suits--and collect a third of any winnings. But even the most combative attorneys are inclined to shake their heads when the defendant is Walt Disney Productions. Against the huge entertainment complex, personal-injury specialists are hardly ever victorious. The company's astonishing success is the result of a combination of safety-minded care and case-hardened lawyering...
...I.R.A.'s use of homemade mortars is an old tactic, but one that had met with little success in the past. The Newry station had once before been a target, in 1980, when shells missed the police post but injured 26 civilians near...
...doesn't live on the sharp end, which means always flying first class and riding in stretch limos known as Autocrats. Slick's library consists of about 13 titles: Home Tax Guide, Treasure Island, The Usurers, Timon of Athens, Consortium, Our Mutual Friend, Buy Buy Buy, Silas Marner, Success!, The Pardoner's Tale, Confessions of a Bailiff, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and The Amethyst Inheritance. When a woman refuses him until he has read Animal Farm, he makes a surprising discovery: "The big thing about reading and all that is--you have...