Word: successful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said yesterday that the tenure came as quite a surprise, since theorists have had little success receiving internal tenure here...
Sophomore year, with visions of the failed Christmas tree dancing in my head, I settled for just hanging my stockings and a string of chili-pepper red lights, and tried to ignore the holidays. Inspired by the previous year's success, junior year I decided that my roommates' Menorah was holiday decoration enough, and I did not even drag the tired stockings out of storage. I took the Charlie Brown approach to Christmas and deemed it too commercial and not worth all the effort. The season went by quickly and uneventfully...
...great extent, of course, the success of a movie's merchandise depends on the success of the movie itself--kids won't eat the cereal of a movie they, and more importantly their friends, haven't seen. At the same time, box-office success does not always guarantee merchandising success--analysts cite Casper and Independence Day as two recent hit movies that disappointed their licensees. Much depends on how "toyetic" a movie is, in industry parlance, and the degree to which merchandise is sympatico with the film. Flipper licensed a camping set, "which is pretty funny," says director Shapiro, "because...
...strong that I thought they were going to reopen the detention camps here in California. Now talk about the "Arkansas-Asia Connection" is broadening that hatred to include all Asian Americans. I cannot help making a comparison to the anti-Jewish sentiment in Nazi Germany when Jewish people were successful in business. Today Asians are a success story. Do people applaud President Clinton for improving foreign trade with Asia? No, blinded by jealousy, they complain that it is the Asian Americans who are reaping the wealth. What have John Huang and the Lippo Group done that is so bad? They...
...pointed to the recent success of the Harvard-Yale Weekend events put on by the council as examples of what the council does with the money not given to student groups...