Word: successful
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...That success story landed Wilmington in a 1995 book called The 100 Best Small Towns in America, but as its population has grown from 11,000 in 1990 to more than 13,000 today, the town began getting metropolitan headaches: unplanned development, relentless traffic (36,000 vehicles roll through town every day, 5,000 of them trucks), crime and drugs--even a crack house and a youth-gang problem. Newcomers and old-timers are seeing their visions of small-town life clash, with cultural battles erupting in school-board and city-council meetings. "I moved here because I wanted...
...patient "bill of rights" Clinton announced two weeks ago is supported by the American Medical Association, which opposed him last time; 91 Republicans back a bill that resembles Clinton's. What hasn't changed is that hard-liners in both parties think the issue can carry them to success in the 1998 congressional elections. Be prepared for charges that the President is trying to socialize medicine or that the G.O.P. wants to toss sick children into the snow, all of it whipped up by the lobbyists and pollsters that dove into the health-care melee the last time...
Aesthetically, the dinnerware and cutlery that her company, Izabel Lam International, began marketing in 1989 were an immediate success. Getting the line manufactured was a headache, however. Lam was then working in bronze, which had a beautiful soft luster, but American manufacturers could not seem to give it the special twist she wanted. The only factory that could was in Thailand...
Despite such exuberance, Lewis has a knack for making her success sound accidental. "I didn't have a business plan," she says. "I just put one foot in front of the other." And speaking of Las Vegas, "all you have to do to make money in this town is show...
...aspect of her success, however, surprises even the assertive Malkani: the men she negotiated with in the Middle East, though hardly accustomed to dealing with women as equals, "were very, very welcoming. It was amazing." An explanation might have been the sheer novelty of meeting an American female chief executive with Malkani's technical training: she has degrees in mathematics, computer science and electrical engineering, and worked in telecommunications before founding her own company. Says Malkani: "It was so unusual to be a lady [with that] expertise." Novelty of course is not enough; ISN's credentials as a U.S. government...