Fiascos stay in the memory for decades; successes are merely exceptions that prove the rule.
As the war in Afghanistan — the most important immediate consequence of 9/11 — enters its second decade, success there, too, is fragile.
Within a decade success was declared; not only had an effective vaccine been produced, it had also been commercialized, trialled and marketed by the Burroughs Wellcome Company (BWC) at its Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories (WPRL) at Beckenham in Kent.
The concerns grew from other countries' experiences with buprenorphine treatment over the previous decade; successes had been accompanied by abuses.
It was the 2007 Glastonbury festival, and Paul Weller was pondering three decades of success.
Over the decades, his success ranged across a wide swath of the business world.
"Companies have overlooked the decades of success they've had with regional marketing approaches.
Training simulators have been used for decades with success; however, a standardized educational strategy for diagnostic EGD is still lacking.
Yet despite his decades of success, most sports owners did not value advancing statistical methods of evaluating players.
Attacked after three decades of success, he failed to parry the criticisms evoked by his New Testament commentary (1639).
