Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sunday, however, President Chaim Herzog asked Peres to form a new government. The elections had left Labor with 44 seats in the Knesset, three more than Likud but still far short of the 61 needed for a parliamentary majority. In the past, Likud has had more success than Labor in patching together a coalition from the small religious and splinter parties that will now control 35 seats in the Knesset. But as Herzog consulted with many of these 13 groups, it became clear that some former Likud supporters were reluctant to commit themselves to a new Shamir government. Among...
...thin he looks frail. His arm span, which on average should equal roughly his height, is an astonishing 7 ft. 4 in. He is the only male swimmer since Mark Spitz to hold world records in two strokes at the same time, and the combination of his success and his unusual architecture has swimming experts muttering in awe. His close-set eyes and long, beaked nose give him an expression of alert irritability. He is said to be arrogant, but before his first race a private kindness showed a different side of his nature...
...learned his moves sprinting through gridlock as a New York City bicycle messenger. Gorski took the gold, taking both heats, Vails the silver, and Japan's Tsutomu Sakamoto the bronze. As they racked up the wins with their funny bikes and star-spangled skinsuits, the reasons for U.S. success became evident: Eddie B.'s tight pre-Games team tactics and rigorous Rocky Mountain regimes. As Vails put it last week, "In today's cycling world, you are what you train." They were just fine in Los Angeles. -By J.D. Reed. Reported by William Blaylock and Lee Griggs/Los...
...nature fought back, however. War in Southeast Asia and political instability in countries like Idi Amin's Uganda interfered with eradication efforts. Premature reports of success against malaria led some health authorities to relax their vigilance. Then came the worst blows of all: in the mid-1960s, Plasmodium falciparum, the most lethal of the four species of parasite that cause human malaria, showed signs of becoming resistant to chloroquine. Soon there were resistant strains on three continents. About the same time, health officials around the Mediterranean began to find mosquitoes that were immune to DDT. It was a classic...
Like a corporate Matterhorn, IBM casts a deep and daunting shadow across Western Europe's high technology. So powerful is IBM in Europe that it did more business there last year ($10.6 billion) than its nine largest rivals combined. But Big Blue's success has aroused European fears and suspicions. Nearly four years ago, the European Community brought the most ambitious antitrust suit in its 26-year history against the American firm. The key charge: IBM stifled competition by holding back technical information about its largest and most widely used family of computers, the System/370...