Word: successfully
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Having seen their bonuses evaporate because of poor profits, and up to 10% of their salaries escrowed pending the success of a cost-cutting program, Chrysler's top 100 executives are now being formally "encouraged" by Chairman Lee Iacocca to buy the company's weak stock. The idea is to coax managers to increase their stake in the company's performance...
...researchers will be awfully disappointed if all they succeed in doing is to fill out the known family tree of particles. Too much predictability can make science dull. Says Samuel Ting, an M.I.T. physicist and one of the head researchers at CERN: "I will only consider our experiment a success if we discover something really surprising -- new types of quarks, for example -- that would explode the standard theory...
...from Father Knows Best to The Cosby Show, a new clutch of anti-family sitcoms is exploring the squalid underbelly of domestic life. And making a killing. ABC's Roseanne is the No. 1-rated show on TV. The Simpsons, on the Fox network, is a smash mid- season success; it and Fox's Married . . . With Children, airing back-to- back on Sunday nights, have jumped into the Nielsen Top 20, an unprecedented triumph for TV's fourth network...
...convinced that your President is not interested in seeing a deterioration in U.S.-Soviet relations. I have no doubt that he is interested in the success of perestroika. This is a realistic policy. Sometimes people / say -- I always do -- that there is no alternative to perestroika. That is not completely true. There is an alternative. If perestroika fails, then we will see a dictator come to power. And everyone knows what a dictatorship means. Without overstating the case, it is in the interest of our entire human civilization for perestroika, democratization and the renewal of our country to succeed...
...fully. When our governments are called upon to support Lithuania's independence, they are mute. Why? Because while the Lithuanian cause is just, there are other causes in the world -- among them the continued success of Gorbachev's attempt to democratize, demilitarize, and decolonize the empire that he inherited. This too counts for something...