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Great successes and failures followed, and at one particular low point in the early 1970s, Mr. Forman was living in the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan, unable to pay his rent after his film "Taking Off" was "an instant flop," he said, dragging thoughtfully on his Davidoff cigar.

Once her career started taking off, was there ever a moment you thought she would drop you for another stylist?

He added: "What led to Occupy Wall Street taking off was not just the iconic image of the ballerina and the bull but a number of factors — including on-the-ground activists building an organization through many, many meetings and relationships and hard work in New York and elsewhere.

Taking off was the biggest challenge for the model pterosaurs.

For example, the US space agency Nasa, where you might think the roar of a rocket taking off was an occupational hazard, has an entire programme dedicated to what it calls "hearing conservation".

Taking off is fuel-intensive.

Josh Lacey's The Dragonsitter Takes Off is published by Andersen.

That titanium is taking off is a bright spot for Russia's struggling aerospace industry.

Their stock markets, while not taking off, are doing better than American equities so far this year.

Take offs are the worst for me.

The sky, which had been mostly clear when they took off, was filling with clouds.