Word: successful
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While most Nobel Prize winners are traditionally informed of their award by the Nobel Prize committee, Professor of Physics Carlo Rubbia learned of his success yesterday in a most unusual...
...acne victim himself. Stone says he visited several dermatologists before clearing his complexion on his own. He claims his "treatment has a clinically proven 95 percent success rate," and to have "cured" himself, his brother, and his freshman roommate...
...DIVESTING, HOWEVER, the University would exceed its socially designated role and misuse its endowment all for a strategy that not only offers little chance of success but also the possibility of harmful retaliation. Bok opposes divestment because, he argues, by selling its stock in companies because they do business in South Africa, Harvard would be using for political ends resources given for educational means. Bok refuses the notion of the university as a political action committee...
...problem of high illiteracy among women in the 17th century concerns Fraser for another reason. "Like everyone interested in women's rights or progress, I believe that education is the key." Although her success as writer and historian no doubt owes much to her own education, she does not consider herself the "exception." She advises women to pursue their goals: "If you want to write, or be a journeyman, don't let anything change your mind. It's true that women need more will to overcome certain obstacles, which is unfair. But a writer, or anyone else...
Reyers advertises heavily, spending about $130,000 a year on television, radio, newspapers and coupons. But its success is due mainly to its enormous inventory: 125,000 pairs of shoes, ranging from Hush Puppies and Thorn McAn to Bally and Anne Klein, and 376 styles of athletic shoes. The store stocks 150 patterns in men's size 13AA alone, and women's sizes run from 3 to 13 in eleven widths from AAAAA to EEE. Such selection, plus enthusiastic salespeople, generates intense customer loyalty. So far this year, Cecelia Veal has made three trips to Reyers from Akron...