Word: successfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evidence suggests that students probably would not feel uncomfortable with the change, even at first. A wide-ranging survey of upperclass students two springs ago showed that satisfaction with house life and success in the assignment lottery were virtually unrelated...
Yesterday's brief demonstrations in Czechoslovakia took the place of a general strike that was called off Sunday by opposition leaders after their stunning success in overturning Communist domination of the government...
...Sunday, the 53-year-old playwright told a cheering crowd of 100,000 in Prague that the new government was "a great success...
...That success led us to believe we could mean all things to all people forever," Bulger said...
...raiders have often been victims of their success. Fancying themselves managers as well as marauders, they built huge but shaky empires that rested on debt. Result: their vast borrowings at sky-high interest rates left companies ranging from TWA to Allied department stores awash in red ink. "Many of the raiders' problems are self-inflicted," says Stuart Bruchey, a professor of economic history at the Columbia University Business School. "They jump into businesses that they don't understand, and expect to jump out with a quick profit. But they end up getting badly bogged down...