Word: successful
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...Apple's shares will likely run up now. RIMM's results have given them permission to. The analysts who have said the stock is too expensive because iPhone and Mac sales will falter are now faced with defending their analysis in the face of the success of one of Apple's "competitors...
ROLE MODEL: Paris Hilton. Duh. You don’t even need to do anything. This one’s perfect for that small yet obscenely wealthy percentage of Harvard students who can simply use their parents to jump start their success...
...measure of a summit's success is the number of participants who attempt to lay claim to its outcome. And by that measure, the G-20 summit in London was a rip-roaring sensation, with several countries seeking to share in the glory. "This is the day that the world came together to fight back against the global recession, not with words but with a plan for global recovery and for reform and with a clear timetable for its delivery," declared the summit host, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Speaking of the agreements reached on tighter regulation of financial markets...
...with Sarkozy had insisted on banishing any Anglo-Saxon laxity from financial regulation, also expressed satisfaction at the conclusion of the summit, which produced not only a six-point communiqué but also two detailed annexes on how a tighter regulatory regime would work. But the key to success, Merkel added at her closing press conference, would be how those measures are implemented. "That's why I'm glad we've agreed to another G-20 meeting, to check our progress," she said. A date and venue for the next meeting have not yet been set. (See pictures behind...
...That's typical of the German leader's restrained approach and a salutary reminder, amid the backslapping, that the political success of the summit - the fact that leaders can go home and tell their citizens they did good - shouldn't be confused with its real, practical impact...