Word: successful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From her second-floor offices bordering the sparkling Caribbean at Charlotte Amalie, the capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Catherine Sittig presides over one of the corporate-welfare system's most enduring success stories...
...arguably America's best-run large enterprise, and under its charismatic chairman, Jack Welch, it has moved aggressively to position itself as a truly global corporation while pursuing every available strategy to boost profitability and shareholder value. While few investors would argue with GE's corporate strategy or its success, it is fair to question the government's continued use of taxes from the rest of us to make GE's hefty profits even greater...
...young editor's head hasn't been entirely turned by this attention from New York City and Hollywood. "I used to think that all we really needed to be a big success was to hook up with somebody in show business who knew what he was doing," he says. "Well, they don't really know what they're doing." Sounds like another hot news item for the Onion: HUMOR EDITOR DISCOVERS VAPIDITY IN HOLLYWOOD...
Opened in 1983 by a British-born feminist theologian named Edwina Gately, Genesis House is one of just a handful of U.S. recovery centers for prostitutes. As social-service and law-enforcement agencies have learned about its success rate and unusual approach in dealing with seemingly intractable clients, it has become a model for similar programs from Florida to Thailand. Nonetheless, just when it has so much to crow about, Genesis House finds itself in financial jeopardy. The loss of half a million dollars in federal funds this year has forced the agency into an unexpected scramble to maintain...
...secret of her success naturally eludes her former mate. Close, yearning observation has led him to believe that the celebrated are mostly not more gifted or harder working than he is. He thinks if he can just worm his way closer to the center of their world, he will be allowed to partake of their magic...