21.   She had been especially happy over the past year, after undergoing a successful operation to help a problem with her thyroid.

22.   Southeast of the town of Vares, combined Bosnian army and Croatian militia units are apparently enjoying their first successful military operation in two years.

23.   Tempest was a successful NSA operation to secure electronic communications equipment from potential eavesdroppers.

24.   The Army is hoping the successful operation of the Tooele incinerator, as the first to be put into operation, will calm public concerns.

25.   The conversation drifted to smuggling weapons and goggles into Jordan and about successful operations against the Israeli army that began in Jordan.

26.   The Foxwoods High Stakes Bingo and Casino is living up to its billing as the most wildly successful gambling operation in the Western Hemisphere.

27.   The fund invests, for example, in Ameritrade, which has a successful online trading operation as well as a profitable off-line brokerage business.

28.   The Macedonian government has been congratulating itself on a successful operation since Sunday against Albanian rebels, which it has managed with minimum casualties.

29.   The share price rose along with excellent investment results but also benefited from the successful operation of insurance subsidiaries.

30.   This year the Russian leader has been seen more often in public after the successful operation.