Word: successful
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...Hoffmann at all, but rather a hybrid based largely upon Alexander Dumas's bland synthesis of Hoffmann's novella. Sendax became interested in the Nutcracker, when he learned that Stowell intended to crack the old Dumas chestnut with Hoffmann's stronger Nutcracker. The Seattle production was a great success. The triumphant ballet complements the publication of this first adequate and wonderful translation...
...guess nobody told them no Harvard hockey squad after. The Team will ever be allowed to achieve any significant success...
...gets something (from Globe Santa) that he would a" have at Christmas," says Crocket, "then as far an I'm concerned it's a success...
They're right. Both operations ran up tabs of well over $100,000--money which could have been used to save 20 times as many fatally diseased patients with considerably more success. In addition, the traditional checks and balances in the medical profession--which do not include government interference--would usually weed out such hopeless operations as the one performed on Baby Fae. But the Loma Linda Hospital published no information, and consequently violated the code of ethics which keeps American medicine so respectable...
Harvard doctors, partially as a consequence of the attention focused on less respectable institutions, have argued that health care should primarily center on operations which promise the most success for the least amount of money. For example, doctors should perhaps invest their energy into programs which discourage smoking--the single biggest cause of death in this country. Hypertension and high blood pressure are other major causes of disease which, if effectively dealt with, could save millions of lives in the future...