The media and politicians are regularly flown in to witness what the military see as a success story.
They regarded Mozambique as a success story and had no wish to push it over the riot threshold.
Despite her many frustrations, Locascio is being touted as a success story by Phoenix's deputy housing director, Maria Bears.
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Poland has pursued a policy of economic liberalization since 1990 and today stands out as a success story among transition economies.
In Bolivia, long seen as a success story for democratic reform, a weak and divided coalition government was shaken by rioting in February.
But, if for no other, more selfless reason, President George Bush will want to point to Afghanistan as a success story as America's presidential elections approach.
The international community hails Ghana as a success story in the region, with U.S. President Barack Obama visiting the nation in 2009 in his first presidential trip to Sub-Saharan Africa.
Somalia, in particular, is being touted as a success story by the Obama administration, which renewed U.S. diplomatic relations this week with Mogadishu for the first time in 20 years.
By contrast, the 2002 Winter Olympics is cited as a stunning success story in the face of a similar crisis.
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India is seen as a big success story of globalisation, but only a minority of Indians benefitted materially from the high growth.
He described it as a huge success story, following decades of exploration around the Irish coast.
By 2001, the genre receded and slowly lost its status as a mainstream success story.
He still returns regularly, and is regarded as a local success story and inspiration.
Councillor Phil Bicknell from Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Council hailed RecycleBank as "a success story".
Over the past 10 years, ARBA appears as quite a success story and one of the few Internet bubble companies to survive and reach profitability, on a GAAP accounting basis at least.
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The Deeside plant marked its 20th anniversary last year, with First Minister Carwyn Jones describing it as "a Welsh success story".
"You need a local success story to legitimize creating startups as a viable business, " said Taavet Hinrikus, founder of TransferWise, a currency-exchange service.
When econo-wonks process those stats, they try to claim the success story as a victory for their preferred models, while constructing any downsides as failures of the other side.
Facebook are looking for a winner here, because the continued success of Facebook as a platform needs a new champion to keep their marketing story fresh to retain developers on the social network based platform.
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Music became a huge success story for the site, as it launched the careers of Sean Kingston, Lily Allen, Arctic Monkeys, and many other then-unknown artists.
Given the challenges of the times and the fact that France is not known as a hot-bed for entrepreneurialism, Neolane is an unlikely success story.
More placid than Egypt with its intense, teeming vitality, Tunisia has had a calmer transition, and has often been described as the success story of the Arab Awakenings.
Mr. Jobs as chief executive in Mr. Isaacson's book is "a success story" and equally "a cautionary tale, " says David A. Garvin, a professor at Harvard Business School.
As far as the fabric of such places is concerned, this is on the whole a success story.
For Gates, Michael Dell, and other successful people held up as examples by a crowd turning against higher education and its higher costs, their success story was written before they even entered college.
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One of the keys to its success has been its use of social features, as I noted in a recent story.
Fairchild Semiconductor, a pioneer in electronics manufacturing in the 1960s, is widely regarded as the first major Silicon Valley success story.
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