In addition to the failure of the Soviet Union, there was the failure of the leftist opposition to the Soviet Union, the failure of third-world liberation movements, and the continuing (though crisis-ridden) success of the capitalist economies of the west.
Football is a way we can persevere, ride the success of the team.
That was a reversal of the time-honored strategy of issuing Christmas collections to ride the success of recent hit albums.
One imagines the whole of Hollywood would very much like to ride the success of Tyldum's film all the way to its own new golden age.
In particular, Acer hopes to ride its success selling laptops and netbooks into the mobile phone market through a mix of new software and wireless data plans.
When "Prison Break" had its debut two seasons ago, serial dramas were all the rage, with producers at every network hoping to ride the success of Fox's "24".
It's tempting to brand all this retro programming as wish fulfillment for network executives trying to ride the success of "Mad Men" to suit their own tastes and universal male fantasies.
As a result it's little surprise these are the machines many device and software makers are trying to ride to success.
After Zynga's wild ride to success over the past several years, the conservative pricing could also help set a new tone for it on the public stage.
Most of these are obviously startups hoping to hit it big at the conference and ride that success to greatness just as Twitter and Foursquare did.
