Results for “Success”

…risks. Of all the moments of truth in my life – and in the life of my country – few, if any, would carry higher stakes. Success would mean not just one more stutter-step away from our century-long conflict with the Palestinians. It would signal a real, final peace: in treaty-spea...

…artner, a large bookseller, e-mailed me historical bestseller statistics to make it clear—this wouldn’t be a mainstream success. So I did all I knew how to do. I wrote it with two of my closest friends in mind, speaking directly to them and their problems—problems I long had—and...

…t in more than a dozen different schools of Buddhism. He mastered everything from medicine to calligraphy. His youthful success and energy at sword fighting, it emerged, was a sign of a prodigal genius. He became, in the 20 th century, recognized as one of those crucial human ves...

…med and unrecognized by New York publishers. Since I had an MBA from Colombia Business School, and a series of relative successes in business, I was dragooned into becoming an agent, initially for Gregory Bateson and John Lilly, whose books I sold quickly, and for sums that caugh...

…here is a significant imbalance of power. This imbalance minimizes the costs to the killers and maximizes the odds of a successful kill. Still, the rarity of killing reinforces an uncontested conclusion among biologists: all animals would rather fight and injure their opponents t...

…eceived mixed reviews upon its full publication, by Random House, in March of that year. The book has been a commercial success, reaching the #3 spot on the Publishers Weekly best-sellers list for non-fiction in April 2011. Brooks was a visiting professor of public policy at Duke...

…d growth stage investments in healthcare and life sciences companies raised by the partners of New Leaf. NLV-III is the successor fund to New Leaf Ventures I, L.P. (“NLV-I”) and New Leaf Ventures II, L.P. (“NLV-II”), which raised capital commitments of $310 million and $450 milli...

… deception that intelligence services play by a different set of rules than historians when it comes to their espionage successes. Angleton, a famously baroque thinker himself, impressed on me the complexity of espionage. He said “It’s not enough just to steal a secret. It must...

…s of public corruption, and for those crimes, it is likely superior to its alternatives. Federal authority has had some success in compensating for states' failures to prosecute police violence and other police wrongdoing, but its efficacy is harder to judge and arguments for sup...

…ity posed by the structural mismatch between the federal government's projected revenue and its spending commitments. A successful second term for Mr. Obama will require both credible proposals for overcoming those related challenges and the determination to carry them through. T...

In re Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001, 392 F.Supp.2d 539 (2005) 10 A.L.R. Fed. 2d 789 C. Success Foundation" 341 The Burnett Plaintiffs claim that Success Foundation is a sister company to Defendant ITRO and that it “sends money back and forth with the RO and IRO” and o...

…recisely those institutions that were thought to be the most potent weapons against a revitalized authoritarianism. The success of the Russian and Chinese regimes in bringing to heel and even harnessing the forces produced by globalization—digital media, civil society, free marke...

… you think is the biggest catalyst for BBT shares over the next 12-24 months? 45% 40% 35% 30% 25% 20% 15% 10% 5% 0% 30% Successful integration of its recent deals and achieving synergy targets 41% Strong top-line organic revenue growth, regardless of macro backdrop 11% Expense ra...

… Middle East. It will be Obama's first trip as president to Israel, where suspicions run high in the aftermath of his unsuccessful early efforts at Middle East peacemaking. The choice of destination — one that Obama avoided in his first term — suggests a revival of his ambitions...

…ry biology. Its main axiom, the biological imperative, becomes one of mine. The idea is that behaviors are selected for successful reproduction. I will try to show that the classical school treated this as axiomatic from Petty through Smith, Malthus, Ricardo and Mill. Malthus was...