Word: successful
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Maybe so, but Martha and her growing World are indisputably a recipe for success. Her company will probably head for an initial public offering on Wall Street. With her newly launched products and media outlets, Stewart's influence reaches more than 30 million people a week, in addition to the 70 million American households that already shop K Mart yearly. At the discount chain, her matelasse covers, an item usually found at the toniest boutiques, are starting to sell like garden hoses, which is just what K Mart needs to bring in the sales. "We have a million ideas that...
...many transistors can be squeezed onto the surface of a silicon chip. The optimists, represented by Intel billionaire Gordon Moore, believe chips will keep getting smaller and faster at a predictable rate (which Moore famously described, in 1965, as a doubling of capacity every 18 months). The success of the computer industry is due in large part to the fact that Moore has been right. But even the optimists of microprocessing recognize that if Moore's Law is going to continue to hold, chipmakers will need a breakthrough...
...essence, the success or failure of Public Eye depends on just how refreshing--or objectionable--the world finds a newsmagazine host who isn't that big on ingratiating himself with people. Gumbel's whole demeanor is that of a guy who has read The Rules (that best-selling dating guide that preaches getting love by remaining aloof) and applied them to his professional life. Interview Gumbel and you could find him telling you, politely enough, that he needs to work during your chat. Then he might type on his computer or peruse his American Express bill...
...Lear with Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature (Henry Holt; 634 pages; $35), a probing and scrupulously footnoted account of this extraordinary woman's life. Carson was a publishing oxymoron--a prodigy who published her first essay in St. Nicholas Magazine at age 11, and a late bloomer who found success as a writer only in her 40s. Through letters and interviews Lear reconstructs an early life in which Carson had to defer dreams of becoming a scientist in order to help support her family following the failed schemes of an ineffectual father and tragedies that befell hapless siblings. While...
...persistent, however, and kept reweaving the strands of her youth --a reverence for nature, great powers of observation and expression, and scientific exactitude--until finally a style that had previously been dismissed by editors as too poetic became celebrated as just poetic enough. When success finally arrived, with the publication of The Sea Around Us in 1951, it came as a tidal wave. Each of her four books became a best seller, and she won virtually every prestigious literary award, including election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters...