Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ended in frustration, frustration made possible by success and the expectations that come with it. "I hate to go out like this," said Vignali. "I was ready to go pop champagne...
...Your nomination in 1980 ended a long ideological split within your party, and your political success since then has kept that down. But at the Dallas convention we began to see the feud revive. Is it going to be possible to keep the party together philosophically? Or as you get into a lame-duck situation, will we see the feud revive...
...their thumbs as a guarantee against double voting. Random visits to polling sites seemed to show that participation by the country's 1.6 million voters was less than the roughly 82% turnout that the ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front claimed as evidence of the election's success...
...delegates who gathered in Dublin's 18th century Mansion House for the annual conference of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, were exuberant. Reason: the I.R.A.'s success in planting the Brighton hotel bomb that last month almost killed British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and left four people dead and 34 injured. "Far from being a blow against democracy," thundered Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams from a platform flanked by huge posters of the devastated hotel, "it was a blow for democracy." Adams termed the bombing "an inevitable result of the British presence...
...most difficult task of all is deciding which computer to buy. Although Apple and IBM have emerged as the industry leaders, their success has not made the choice any easier. For example, in the market for business computers, where IBM is dominant, shelves are crammed with IBM look-alikes-machines that follow IBM's specifications down to the color of the keys, although they sometimes offer improvements in power or price. The market is now crowded with some two dozen of these IBM clones. Says Michael Shabazian, president of the ComputerLand chain of retail stores: "The differences between products...