Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jazz for Life concert. There she was, tapping her feet to the music, dancing onstage with Brother Blue, and having a great time. Although it was difficult to establish the intimacy that her poems require with an audience in Sanders Theater, her spontaneity added to the evening's success...
...from Performers sponsored Walker's poetry reading. Although the space was very crowded, with people sitting on the floor and dangling from the upper balcony, no one was turned away. Afterwards, Walker patiently signed copies of The Color Purple and her other books. Walker was soft-spoken about her success, and she admitted that she enjoyed gardening more than the rewards of fame. "When you win a prize" she said referring to The Color Purple's Pulitzer, "there are a lot of the cans attached to it. You can become really rattled." It was over a year before she could...
...Eagles then turned potential disaster into success, tying the game at two right after the opening face-off. Brown stole the puck from Jay Heinbuck and came in alone on Racine, beating him high to the right...
They are the entrepreneurs, and their current success can be threatening to established corporations. At a time of rapid technological change, young, fleet-footed firms with a new product or a new way of selling can quickly take over markets. Some of the most important breakthroughs in recent years in such fields as semiconductors and bioengineering have been made by smaller companies. At the same time, large firms risk losing prized employees who have caught the entrepreneurial fever. In 1975 Stephen Wozniak, then a 25-year-old designer at Hewlett-Packard, went to his boss with the idea...
...financial gain, is the key. Pinchot says that companies should try to tap employees' interest by giving them the freedom and the financial backing to chase their ideas. If they succeed, they may get a bonus or a promotion. But for intrapreneurs, the real payoff is the feeling of success--"I did it, and it worked...