Word: successful
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...been stonewalled," griped committee spokesman Paul Clark, but he added, "There's still important material we haven't got" and "700,000 pages of documents to go through." Yet the sense of a lost opportunity is starting to infect the G.O.P. troops. "If the hearings are a success, fine, Thompson gets the credit," said a House leadership aide. "If they sputter and don't produce anything, Thompson gets the blame...
...success of Ma Bell's progeny is no accident. A Penn State study found that the stocks of 161 spin-off companies between 1965 and 1990, on average, rose 76%, vs. a market average of only 43%, over three years. Why? Often spin-off companies become more focused, and because they are smaller they tend to have greater ability to grow rapidly. Meanwhile, there is little evidence that giant mergers create great wealth for shareholders. Just ask AT&T. It paid $7.4 billion for NCR Computer in 1991 and soon gave up on the acquisition, spinning it off to shareholders...
...watery eyes and blew his nose. Sentimental? No, actually he's allergic to hay and horses; always has been. That's just one of the anomalies on Baffert's past-performance chart. He grew up on the family ranch in Nogales, Ariz., rode quarter horses without much success, became something of a party animal while majoring in animal science at the University of Arizona, tried substitute teaching for a while, worked in a Tucson feed store for another while, then gravitated back to quarter horses as a trainer. He found his calling, or so he thought, putting together a successful...
Thoroughbred training and quarter-horse training are obviously a breed apart, but the latter requires a horse sense and work ethic that Baffert put to good use once he decided to run with the big boys. His first major success came with Thirty Slews, who won the Breeders' Cup Sprint in 1992. By 1995 he was the leading trainer at Santa Anita. At last year's Kentucky Derby, he saddled Cavonnier, who lost by a nose to Grindstone--trained by Lukas. "I actually thought we had the race won," says Baffert, "so when they posted the results, it felt like...
...success of Men's Health--its circulation increased 400% over the past six years; its ad pages were up 20% last year--has prompted competitors to ratchet up their own quotas of service pieces (the industry term for articles that are useful, as opposed to being about Tea Leoni). Esquire, which in its '60s incarnation published some of the decade's defining journalism, has just this month been remade in a more service-oriented mode: the president of its corporate division now describes it as a "tool kit for living." David Granger, a GQ editor who last week was named...