Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would rather not talk about great successes," President Bok says when asked what he believes are his most significant achievements at Harvard. "I don't like reading about people who talk of their great successes. One person's triumph is another man's pitfall. Success is a very ambiguous thing...
...solution was for someone to finance a business, someone like Howard ("Ted") Greene, 42, who boasts a Harvard M.B.A. and lots of financial connections. But Greene had no idea what he would have to face. "Fear," he says now, "is a very, very important factor in entrepreneurial success...
...millions of Americans the blue-eyed, sandy-haired Ueberroth is still a virtual unknown. Even his recent anointment to the apple-pie job of baseball commissioner left most of the country in the dark about him. How did he achieve such a spectacular success? What combination of strength and guile lay behind that almost inscrutable exterior? All his life Ueberroth has been in the thrall of challenges. The Olympics were clearly his greatest. He made speech after speech to his thousands of workers about how together they had to climb a majestic mountain. "I've always hunted for challenges," says...
SNAPPIEST SALUTE: The box-office success of A Soldier's Story, which once more proved that a broad audience exists for a serious film with black actors...
...nation was enjoy- ing its highest rate of economic growth in 34 years, its lowest inflation rate in twelve years and a rapid drop in unemployment. Reagan boasted that in four years the Soviets had not added an inch to the territory under Communist control. After four successive presidencies widely regarded as disappointing, Americans strongly approved a White House tenure that could be described, for the moment at least, as a success...