Inevitably, almost every successful businessman in Syria is related, or at least closely connected, to a senior government figure.
Amid such mysteries Mr Lander highlights qualities that almost all successful restaurateurs share.
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The MGM movie has been, over the decades, almost too successful: Few producers wanted to return to Oz for fear of competing with Judy Garland, Frank Morgan and company.
Instead I suspect the majority no longer give a damn, which is almost certainly going to cause problems for their hopes of creating a long lasting (and profitable) franchise that could, potentially, have been almost as successful as Star Wars or Star Trek.
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In one sense, no: almost all the successful candidates support Lebanon's domination by Syria, which stations 35, 000 troops in the country.
Impact of the truth on business success: To be successful almost every organization needs to sell be it a product, a service, a story, or a promise.
Almost all the successful companies began by producing at least some components for others (Sony still does) but were equally determined to carve out names for themselves by making distinctive products.
Almost everybody who has been successful or who has been in a successful organization learns something about dealing with change, and there is a fundamental methodology that almost everybody has been taught that, up to a certain point, seems to work well.
Of those who appeal their case to a judge, almost 90% are successful.
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Successful because almost every single person who worked for NASA pulled together in an astounding feat of teamwork to save the crew.
Hostile bids are rare in India, and successful ones almost unheard of.
The Austrian theory of the trade cycle explains why loans are systematically granted to people who will almost certainly not be successful restaurant owners.
But to some extent even this old approach to medical rent-seeking was costly and inefficient after all, one had to run to fifty different statehouses and donate to numerous different candidates, and it was almost impossible to be successful in every one.
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America (and Israel) were almost certainly behind the most successful known cyber attack to date: the Stuxnet virus that impeded Iran's uranium-enrichment program.
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In the first place, the profile of the successful entrepreneur is almost always the heroic male entrepreneur, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates.
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Almost two years after the successful yes vote, national stars of stage and screen joined royalty and politicians in celebrating the opening of the new Welsh Assembly in Cardiff Bay.
The Times makes it almost unpatriotic for GM to be successful and save the country from depression.
Indeed, people over 55 are almost twice as likely to launch successful companies as those between 20 and 34, according to data from the Kauffman Foundation.
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Those changes have manifested into the country we see today where greater than 50% of college graduates are women and almost no career does not have successful women members.
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Of course, the most important test lies ahead, when a successful march through the postseason will almost certainly require greater support than Rose received during last year against Miami.
But even if this ambitious salvage is successful, it still will have taken almost two years to remove the wreck.
Pretty powerful stuff from Ballmer, whose company has ridden its software-only strategy for almost 40 years to become one of the most successful corporations in the history of American business.
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Several hundred American troops have been operating at Colombian bases for almost a decade under Plan Colombia, a fairly successful aid scheme under which the United States has provided training and intelligence help against Colombia's drugs and guerrillas.
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Why push so hard against one of the more successful charter outfits, and one that caters almost exclusively to the poor?
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Kirk, a widely known leader in the life sciences industry whose reputation as a founder of several successful biotech companies and savvy deal maker is almost unmatched.
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You almost have to have it if you want to be disproportionately successful.
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So the sale of a Landesbank that can contribute almost 2m customers in Berlin, as well as a reasonably successful capital-markets team, could spur further consolidation.
Almost single-handedly, that title made Shanda the single most successful IPO in 2004.
When it comes to investing, for instance, it almost certainly makes the market less efficient and makes individual investors less successful.
It was a very successful guerrilla organisation but, even in victory, it almost immediately faced what has become the traditional republican dilemma: should there be a compromise which falls short of the all-Ireland ambition?
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