Word: succession
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...more profits out of Cadbury, though, could mean cutting jobs. And with Kraft pledging to preserve U.K. staff as part of its offer, any such move might make Cadbury unpopular. That's left some analysts backing the Americans. Kraft, reckons Batstone-Carr, "has a better than 50% chance of success...
...success is measured anecdotally...
...actress, and all-around trailblazer who, unfortunately for our generation, has been largely forgotten. Never a suffragette or a flapper, Gertrude berg was a refined, upper middle-class mother of two, and a breakthrough female leader, rising against societal expectations for both Jews and women to become a wildly successful celebrity. After finding herself dissatisfied with mundane voiceover work, Berg created her own radio show, “The Rise of the Goldbergs” (later shortened to “The Goldbergs”). Centered on the life of a lower East Side Jewish family of immigrant parents...
...Qaeda. A former Afghan security adviser told TIME that Laghmani had knowledge of who within the Taliban were sheltering Osama bin Laden's band. It was his sleuthing that ran down links between the Pakistani intelligence services and the bombers of the Indian embassy in Kabul in 2008. This success made Laghmani powerful enemies in Pakistan, especially those in the intelligence apparatus who still secretly back the Taliban. The Taliban, too, celebrated the kill. "We were looking for him for a long, long time, but today we succeeded," exulted Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid...
Other compounding factors include high unemployment - in Ingushetia, the worst off, unemployment has hit 70% - and a Kremlin that has placed too much faith in client-states to keep the peace. Exhibit A: Ramzan Kadyrov. Kadyrov was hailed as a success by Putin, who has painted himself as a strongman who brought peace and prosperity to Russia. But Kadyrov is a thug whose militia are guilty of every human-rights abuse imaginable; when the Russians ended their 10-year counterterrorism operations in the region earlier this year, violence surged...