Word: successful
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...goal this year is to go out and swim against nationally-ranked teams," Costin Scalise said. "We got invited because of our recent success. But we also want to try and qualify some of our swimmers for the nationals...
...selected and used in an increasingly common procedure known as in vitro fertilization. This involves placing the eggs in a soup of sperm and implanting resulting embryos in the mother's womb. The main difficulty is that only one in ten tries results in a birth. Yet the success rate may improve, and prefertilization diagnosis could someday be used to intercept defective genes that cause such diseases as Tay-Sachs, cystic fibrosis and thalassemia...
...biggest U.S. automotive gamble in years. Launched by Chairman Roger Smith in 1982, Saturn was designed to give GM a small car that would outsell imports from Japan. Said Smith in the mid-1980s: "We believe Saturn is the key to GM's long-term competitiveness, survival and success as a domestic producer...
...topper for gag sequences. Once or twice his former sweet hipness glimmers through, and he has written a funny bit for his pal Arsenio Hall, playing a man on a murderous crying jag. But mostly Harlem Nights offers a depressing answer to that not entirely pressing question, "Will success spoil Eddie Murphy?" It looks...
Sotheby's feels it is being arraigned for the crime of high success. David Nash, head of its Fine Arts division, told the Washington Post that critics, far from being elitist, have "a hostile proletarian attitude toward our business." (Let 'em eat Braque.) But auction-house pretensions to be self- regulating have collided with the skepticism of Angelo Aponte, New York City commissioner of consumer affairs...