An avid golfer, Bob believed there was a market for golf enthusiasts and developed and launched Golf Magazine, one of the earliest successful "special interest" magazines.
While the offering was successful, rising interest rates and the hypercompetitive online market caused the company's losses to swallow so much of its capital that it was forced to shut down last week.
The most famous example of a successful public interest defence is that of Clive Ponting, a Ministry of Defence official who - two years after the event - leaked documents to the Labour MP Tam Dalyell about the circumstances of the sinking of the Argentine cruiser, Belgrano, during the Falklands war of 1982.
The campaign against smoking is one of the most successful public-interest fact-checking operations in history.
She's a successful special-interest lobbyist on Capitol Hill, who is driven to win and appears to give little thought to the various causes she represents, or to the people she uses to achieve her goals.
The maneuver appeared to be successful, with overnight interest rates falling through the rest of the afternoon.
According to one of the chain's buyers, Rob Hughes, it has been"very successful", generating considerable interest in books which have been banned around the world in the past.
As the patents for highly successful biopharmaceuticals expire, interest in "generic" versions of these products, or biosimilars, is emerging.
Friendships increase the probability of successful funding, lower interest rates on funded loans, and are associated with lower ex post default rates (Duarte et al. 2012) investigate the role appearance plays in financial transactions.
While this technique has been successful in sparking interest in STEM careers (Javidi & Sheybani, 2010; Robertson & Howells, 2008), little research has been conducted on how it impacts STEM success.
