Word: successful
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...high as any team in baseball, having sold every seat for every game in a popular new stadium for three years running. They're in first place in the American League's Central Division this year and have become mainstays in post-season play. Cashing in on that success, the club's controlling shareholder, Cleveland investor Richard E. Jacobs, sold 4 million shares at $15 each to raise $60 million. One hopes his many new partners are rabid baseball fans with no economic need for the stock actually to rise. Because...
...real assurance, however, may be that many utilities aren't counting on complete success. Rather, most plan to have extra people and manual work-arounds in place for critical systems, according to Jon Arnold, chief technology officer at the Edison Electric Institute, which represents the public utilities that generate more than three-quarters of the country's electricity. "People forget that electric utilities have equipment failures and outages all the time," says Arnold. He acknowledges that "it's not going to be a typical New Year's Eve" in 1999. But, he adds, Y2K "is not like a storm...
...does Frank's pandemic success mean that people will rush out and purchase a memoir by his younger brother Malachy, 66, specifically A Monk Swimming (Hyperion; 290 pages; $23.95)? This question is slightly less silly; Malachy's publisher has wagered a $600,000 advance to its novice author in hope that the answer will be a cash-register-ringing yes. And in his acknowledgments at the beginning of the book, Malachy thanks Frank "for opening the golden door." It's not hard to figure out what he means...
...including Toni Morrison, Alice Hoffman and, most recently, Edwidge Danticat, as "the call." Says Mitchard, laughing: "It fell under the category of 'Who knew?' I was dumbfounded, honest to gosh." On her follow-up book, the hard part was to exorcise all notions of trying to duplicate the previous success. "The temptation is to just write something like, 'He had a hairy chest, she had big breasts, and everyone got run over by a truck,'" Mitchard says. "You think, people are going to paste me right across the jaw anyway, so why not just get it over with...
...promise. And two new art forms, movies and the popular song, formed the flying wedge of American hegemony, sending a message of optimism and expansion all over the world. The movie narrative with its cozy moral, the 32-bar song of soaring sentiment and quick resolution--both sold love, success, assimilation. Romantic yearning and career striving were two sides of the same all-American ambition...