Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team developing the concept is just coming off the first major test of its strategy, which participants are calling an important success, and tomorrow the group will be formally awarded a $75,000 state contract. Working with the Massachusetts Department of Social Services, the Public Dispute Project of the Program on Negotiation will be the first to use the strategy on a statewide basis...
Susskind says cynicism like Phaneus's is the biggest obstacle to the NIS' success. He says that people are too quick to assume the project cannot work and let the gams carried so far fall by the wayside. "It's going to take a lot more successes to convince people that this kind of thing can work," he says...
Thompson, one of the nation's preeminent composers, was best known for his choral compositions, but he also achieved great success in orchestral and chamber music...
...first major compositional success came in 1931 with his symphony No 2 and was followed in 1936 by The Peaceable Kingdom, both of which won widespread critical acclaim...
...superb performance as the more stable Charlie, a man in his mid-twenties with extravagant tastes, especially for natty suits and a greased hair-do. He already has a son by a previous marriage and dreams of owning his own restaurant some day. What prevents Charlie from becoming a success on his own is a strange lack of initiative. Rourke's Charlie is seemingly content to plod along--dreaming of the future--only becoming daring when his cousin plunges him into another one of his hair-brained plans...