Mr Roth fell down twice in the final months of campaigning, once in view of the TV cameras.Republicans, too, had their successes, picking up Senate seats in Nevada and Virginia and holding on to other western states, such as Montana, that had seemed in jeopardy.
Do what Secretary Colin Powell once did, with admirable success: Pick the best and brightest from the corps of experts, people that the Secretary trusts and knows can get the job done, and put them in the chairs.
Famously, Warren Buffett has had great success picking the corporate winners over the years.
The student movement, emboldened by its success, picked up the decade-long campaign against segregation in Orangeburg, focusing on a downtown bowling alley.
"We're now working very hard to develop in the US, where we've already had some success picking up big-name clients such as Verizon".
The day's first over meant it was a matter of "how soon" as Ryan Sidebottom, who enjoyed his fifth championship success, picked up his 700th first-class wicket, then his 701st, and 702nd.
Much of that could comfortably apply to Matilda, Minchin's debut musical, co-written with playwright Dennis Kelly, which has gone on to worldwide success, picking up a record-breaking seven Olivier awards in 2011 and a further four Tonys last year.
Tom Ortenberg and Mark Urman, co-presidents of Lions Gate Films, said they had continued to have success picking up films in Toronto in recent years ("The Big Kahuna" last year, "The Red Violin" the year before) and hoped to buy more this year.
Telescopes, which can have cameras, have been adapted with varying degrees of success to pick up high-altitude satellites and extremely faint objects.
Rehabilitated after the war, he tried without success to pick up where he had left off, performing and returning to his old post in Cologne.
