These concepts are extremely relevant today and would help clear up much of the confusion over such questions as whether the stimulus program worked, whether monetary policy has been successful, whether TARP was a success or a failure.
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The question arises whether an entirely successful biography of an athlete can be written.
When the quarterback throws the pass, his feedback on whether he was successful is pretty immediate by the result of the play.
They are setting the agenda, leading the Social media agency conversation, sharing their views, recommending the best products and deciding whether brands are successful or not.
The doctors are doing whatever they can to treat sick people such as Chipo Matewe and her fetus, but only time will tell whether they are successful.
Spain and France both come to the bond market today and whether they are successful or not will ultimately decide the direction that the EUR will take in the medium term.
What makes Silverman's decision more than a neatly timed home sale is that he is effectively shorting the real estate market--and getting a capital gains tax break whether he is successful or not.
While visiting with my 89 year old mother in law, Alice, my husband and I asked her whether she thought successful people her age are willing to discuss their assets, their businesses, their attitudes about passing on their wealth with their kids.
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The crucial test of whether that new range is going to be successful or not is whether it can attract consumers away from other such smartphone platforms.
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To judge whether a business is successful or not, the only measure is money.
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He praised the goal of the conference but questioned whether it would be successful.
He says he has been told he can apply for one in 2004, but has been given no indication whether it will be successful.
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Just putting an app in the App Store is not enough to make your apps successful, whether it is used internally or aimed at consumers.
After each attack, the scientists recorded the precise geographical location and the depth of the water, as well as whether the attack was successful or not.
"I think it's too early to say whether it will be successful or not, but initial opinions here aren't favorable, " says Sohn Hyun-duck, economics editor at the Maeil Business Newspaper, Korea's vanguard publication.
While this means they have a similar role to the guided missile cruisers, destroyers are smaller and faster and are designed to reduce their profile on enemy radar - though it is unclear whether this technology is successful.
In that way, the question of whether or not you were successful is answered very easily.
There should be no question as to whether or not they are successful in raising the money they need to finance their businesses.
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Mr Obama's chances of being any more successful depend on whether his team has correctly diagnosed what is driving the wave of foreclosures.
The weather, the height of tides and levels of human disturbance all have an impact on whether the birds enjoy a successful breeding season.
They indicate only whether patients have had treatment or no longer require it (for example, because they're dead), not whether that treatment has been successful.
Analysts differ on whether Zetia can be as successful as Claritin.
Whether this development has been successful is a matter for the critics, who have blasted some of the opera productions led by theater directors (sometimes for not being adventurous enough).
But the proof of whether a car company is successful comes in two fundamental ways: is it getting people to buy its cars, and is it making money doing so?
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He spent the two days at the summit encouraging leaders to act, but was left to wait until next week's European gathering to see whether his engagement would prove successful.
It is debatable whether these policies have been successful.
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Pregnant and breastfeeding women in the UK are currently advised to take daily supplements of vitamin D to protect against deficiency, but whether this advice has been successful or not has never previously been studied in Scotland.
It remains to be seen whether these efforts and innovations will be enough to create new paths for successful investments in hardware-only business models or whether VC investments in physical products in the IT and Energy arena will have limited interest for the foreseeable future.
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This probably has investors skeptical as to whether such a transaction will be successful.
Of course, no one knows whether those ideas will be more successful than anything else.
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