1.   An article for the Baptist church magazine was successful but less so, an interview for Radio Forth.

2.   And unlike other wildly successful but small entrepreneurial businesses, Country Curtains remains in the hands of its founders.

3.   Just before the playoffs, goalie Martin Brodeur mused about all the attention that would soon come to his successful but often-overlooked New Jersey Devils.

4.   Abbar said he expected an appeal to the interior ministry to be successful but no date had been set.

5.   The U.S. diplomatic initiative headed by envoy Christopher Hill, may be successful but the talks, once they resume after they broke down in May, may not.

6.   East said that if the first application was successful but the second was not, he would return to The Hague to argue his case.

7.   The surgery was successful but the next day Bogarde suffered the stroke, which has affected his left side.

8.   Video and radar imaging were successful but the crew had trouble reflecting the laser beam off the satellite.