Word: successful
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With the accruing fruits of pop-culture success, Laudor moved to the tranquil New York suburb of Hastings-on-Hudson, to the River Edge apartment complex, with a view of the magnificent cliffs of the Palisades and the olive green waters of the Hudson. He lived with Caroline Costello, who had been deeply in love with him since their undergraduate years at Yale, and continued to love him in spite of his illness. They were ideal tenants. They were quiet neighbors. They were engaged to be married. She was talking to a rabbi about converting to Judaism, her lover...
...river slows down as it emerges from the Three Gorges onto the plains, but the impatience for wealth and success only increases. Wuhan, China's fifth largest city, is the transfer point for cargo from oceangoing ships to smaller boats heading further upriver, and has long been a center of commerce. Here are department stores with imported brands, stock-trading houses, U.S. fast-food chains--and "Balls," a newly opened NBA theme bar run by a former car salesman from Taiwan. Not so slick as Shanghai, Wuhan still has its pretensions, enough to attract people such as "Johnny" Wang Liang...
Riding the critical success of Everest, IMAX Corp., of Mississauga, Ontario, plans to expand by taking this sensory overload to a megaplex near you. "The company is going through a huge shift from institutional sites into more commercial sites like multiplexes," says Kevin Skislock, a senior analyst at investment bank L.H. Friend, Weinress, Frankson & Presson...
...this success is nice for McMahon and Turner, but what about Western civilization? The biggest concern is the popularity of pro wrestling among children. McMahon has a point when he says that wrestling is less violent and sexually suggestive than much of pop culture; still, it is jarring to go to a wrestling event and see boys so young that they must be taken to the men's room by their fathers. Another worry is the use of drugs. Steroids aren't as prevalent as they once were, but the abuse of painkillers has become a problem. WCW says...
...years. I have had more than seven visits in the past three days from friends and relatives, anxious to hear about "life over there." Not only have I become a prime object of my parents' pride, but I have also (by word of mouth, seemingly) become an image of success. I left home at 14 to go to the first private high school in the country, the American College of Sofia, where I spent three years, after which I won a scholarship to represent Bulgaria at the Armand Hammer United World College in Montezuma, New Mexico. Two years later...