Word: successfully
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...have the envelope, please. And the winner for biggest Broadway success of the year is . . . the box office. During the 1989-90 season, which ended last week, receipts at Broadway's 36 stages reached a record $283 million, up 8% from last year and 48% from the depth of the slump in the mid-'80s. The past season featured the Tony Award-winning musicals City of Angels and Grand Hotel, along with many major stars, including Dustin Hoffman, Kathleen Turner and Tyne Daly...
...city's weak-mayor system, dominated by an eleven-member council, Gantt proved adept at consensus building. He effectively promoted growth and pushed through the building of a sports coliseum that attracted an N.B.A. franchise. He was re-elected resoundingly in 1985. Then his success, in a sense, overtook him. Charlotte thrived to the point of attracting huge traffic snarls, which his 1987 Republican opponent, Sue Myrick, exploited...
Wisconsin-based G. Heileman Brewing had been enjoying heady success until Australian raider Alan Bond took over the company in 1987 for $1.6 billion. Bond's empire collapsed two years later, leaving the brewer swamped with debt. Heileman is now attempting to give creditors an equity stake in return for loan relief...
...Grand Central Terminal for $10 million. The partners tore down the Commodore and built the Grand Hyatt luxury hotel in its place. The city recovered, and the hotel's value (current estimate: $70 million) soared with it. Borrowing against his stake in the Hyatt, Trump parlayed his first success into more and more prime real estate...
...hope of sparking some daring new ideas, corporate America is encouraging its workers to get wild and crazy. -- Robert Ball on the success of Britain's new Elizabethans...