Word: successful
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Shortly after his first success, Hancock began training for competition in full triathlons. Arguably the most grueling of all competitions, the triathlon combines a one-mile swim, a 26-mile bike ride, and a six-mile...
...sets in use were tuned to one of the Big Four networks--NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox. By last fall, that figure was down to 65%. During last month's premiere week, the network share took another startling drop--to 61% of the viewing audience. The measure of success has fallen accordingly: Dharma & Greg is considered a "hit" this season with a rating of 10.5 last week; 10 years ago it would have been 57th out of 68 shows and a target for quick cancellation...
...winning its time period. Veronica's Closet, starring Kirstie Alley, has a fail-safe time slot on NBC between Seinfeld and ER, and it has kept more of Seinfeld's audience than many other shows similarly blessed. Ally McBeal, Fox's Monday-night comedy-drama, looks like another success...
...Stories of My Life by Katharine Hepburn --My Early Life: 1874-1904 by Winston Churchill --My Life & the Principles for Success by Ross Perot --My Life in High Heels by Loni Anderson --My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber --History of My Life, Volumes I-XII, by Giacomo Casanova...
Sorochak's dreamy success notwithstanding, investing in stocks isn't the sure thing that today's equity culture assumes. Even in up markets, some stocks go down and stay down. Ask anyone who owned shares of U.S. Surgical in 1991. Johnson & Johnson invaded the little company's niche in surgical supplies, and the stock, once worth $120 a share, is now below $30. U.S. Surgical is hardly an isolated case. Biotechnology stocks fell 80% in a 1992 bloodbath, and many have not fully recovered. This year scores of stocks are down in an up market...