Word: successfully
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When pressed, however, MacCready credits daydreaming for much of his success. As an example, he cites a month-long vacation in the summer of 1976, when he, his wife Judy and their three young sons drove 7,000 miles from California to the East Coast and back again. Rolling along in the family van, away from work, MacCready let his mind wander...
Harrison spent five years practicing and refining his technique on hundreds of sheep and monkeys. Even so, his first six operations on human fetuses with problems similar to Blake's failed: he was unable to save the babies because of difficulties encountered in handling their organs. After his success with Blake, Harrison performed a comparable prenatal operation on a little girl, who was also born healthy...
...Warsaw suburb of Zoliborz. She is one of 250 regulars at the serving hatch in the white-tiled kitchen, opened to alleviate some of the pain produced by Poland's forced march from a centrally planned communist system to a free- market society. Her lunchtime routine shows that the success of that transformation still hangs in the balance...
Ironically, these somber facts may be indicative of success more than failure. Inflation, which reached 54% last October, sank to 6% in April. Absenteeism in industry has been halved during the past five months, as layoffs have increased. Food shortages seem a thing of the past. Shop shelves are full, and traders crowd pavements offering everything from bread to bananas...
...prominent civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is planning a big speech on the Washington Mall. Influenced by the success of product placements in President Kennedy's Inaugural Address ("Let the word go forth that the torch has been passed to the Pepsi generation . . ." and so forth), Marty is prepared to build a big dream sequence around a few selected products. For $20,000, he will declare, "I have a dream that some day blacks and whites will sit together at McDonald's, sharing a Big Mac and fries." For $40,000, he will display...