Word: successful
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...correct 90% of the time. "This is not some kind of gambling exercise," he says. "It's a very serious business." Boesky contends that arbitrage can be safer than buying stocks as long-term investments. Reason: he maintains it is simpler to calculate the odds of one deal's success than to figure out the movements of the stock market...
...HUMANA HOSPITAL AUDUBON IN LOUISVILLE. AND ONCE AGAIN, AS THE OPERATION DREW TO A CLOSE, A STRANGE, PERCUSSIVE ACCOMPANIMENT AROSE FROM THE PATIENT'S CHEST: ch, ch, ch. FOR DR. WILLIAM DEVRIES, THE ONLY SURGEON IN THE WORLD AUTHORIZED TO IMPLANT THE ARTIFICIAL HEART, THESE WERE THE SOUNDS OF SUCCESS, AS REASSURING TO HIM AS A NEWBORN'S FIRST SQUEAL IS TO THE OBSTETRICIAN...
...stranger among Allen's regulars was Jeff Daniels, hired through Casting Director Juliet Taylor. But he was a success. "Jeff never spoke to me," Allen reports with satisfaction. "He never once asked me, 'What's this character about?' " What Allen saw in Daniels was a performer with the rare gift of going goofy without losing his romantic appeal. "This is the guy everyone has been looking for: the guy who can do light comedy. There were these players years ago, like Cary Grant, William Powell, Robert Montgomery. This kid is our version of that in the best sense...
Clancy's book differs from the usual commercial publishing success in a number of ways. First, it was brought out not by Simon & Schuster or Random House but by the Naval Institute Press (N.I.P.) of Annapolis, an academic publisher specializing in works like The Mariner's Pocket Companion and Dictionary of Naval Abbreviations. Second, the author is not an experienced novelist but a Maryland insurance broker who wrote his tale of high-tech undersea warfare without having served a single day in the Navy, much less aboard a submarine...
...Thompson on the just released One Clear Moment. But, as pop icons, Lauper and Madonna are exerting more power right now than any other women on the scene. With her squashed face looking as if it is pressed perpetually behind glass, Lauper is every lost girl's projection of success: a little nutty, a lot mocking and splendidly vindicated, all in her own terms. Madonna is a dream off the back of a locker door, taunting and yielding, a teen male fantasy that slips into an adolescent world where everything is outsize - even and especially (feminists take note, please...