What will the anniversary's success, or failure, say about the city's future and its liberation from the past?
A huge success, the government have said next year we can only borrow one million pounds to invest.
The Yankees' success away from home says something more fundamental about the team and its evolving view of itself.
And just about all concerned with making "SeaQuest" a success say they know why.
"The success of this whole venture just blows my mind," he said.
That success says more about us than it does Activision.
Such success says a lot about the evolution of the company.
The success of "Ashanti" says a lot about how this young woman's music is listened to.
As the idiosyncratic show heads toward sunset, its improbable success says something about the state of entertainment in America.
But the likelihood of replicating that success on a broad scale, he said, remains an open question.