When Mr. Hotchner and Mr. Newman speak publicly about why Newman's Own succeeded, they usually cite quality, celebrity and philanthropy, generally in that order.
Recently, Xerox on its own succeeded in building a blue laser for use in ultrahigh-resolution laser printing, a big achievement.
In the old days it meant working hard, striking out on one's own, succeeding in your career.
Even so, we never went far wrong on our own, succeeding with the lightly sweetened tofu teriyaki, the chicken and vegetable tempura and the nabeyaki udon (a richer soup than anticipated, perfect for a wintry evening).
The Spanish media welcomed news of Almodovar's television debut with the usual patriotic cheer that pours forth whenever one of their own succeeds in an US market – even if that market happens to be relatively low-brow and tame for the director and many of his fans.
Each decade after that has its own succeeding letter; "C" designates the 1960s, "D" designates the 1970s and so on.
If Beauman intended to wipe out every trace of du Maurier's world and substitute her own, she succeeded.
If they did not fully meet my hopes and expectations (nor, I suspect, their own), they succeeded in making a very fine film, one that has no equal, no parallel that I know of, in the entire movie canon.
There in 1945 the Nazis intended to make a "last redoubt", and it was from a house there that Eichmann, the man who set out to destroy the Jews of Hungary (including Mr Lendvai's own family), succeeded in escaping to Argentina.
Hollywood's success is so great that it has all-but-destroyed the chances of our own films succeeding in our own country, and if the price they pay for that is an influx of Hemsworths, then they can deal with it.
Amgen, which owns Neupogen, succeeded in delaying Zarxio's launch by six months through a lawsuit that, in the end, favored Zarxio's maker Sandoz.
