Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defeat the well-organized Ortega. U.N.O. must reach its natural constituency among those hurt most by the Sandinistas. Even the U.S. is uncertain how strongly to back her. While Ortega is one of Bush's least favorite heads of state, lavishing U.S. resources on a lost cause could succeed only in making Ortega more difficult to deal with in a second term. Still, the U.S. will spend $9 million to support the election, giving some to U.N.O. and some -- by Nicaraguan law -- to the Sandinista government...
...however, one big European vacation. As an "import"--one of two American players allowed each European team--MacDonald is under a lot of pressure to produce. It's not a new situation for MacDonald: he's always felt a personal, if not an outside, push to succeed...
...hard for me now when I succeed in hockeybecause part of my success was my dad being thereto support me in my achievements," he says. "Now,it's a totally different thing with him not in thepicture any more."JOHN WEISBROD (27) makes a move towards thenet. The Harvard forward tallied 22 goals lastseason...
...sole congressional seat contestedyesterday, early returns from Texas put Houstoncity council member Anthony Hall and state Sen.Craig Washington far out front in an 11-way raceto succeed the late Rep. Mickey Leland. NeitherDemocrat was gaining 50 percent of the vote neededto avoid a runoff...
...respected researcher who was one of the first to use cyclosporine may have found a better way to make transplants succeed. Dr. Thomas Starzl of the University of Pittsburgh, the world's largest transplant center, is expected to report in the British journal Lancet this week that a new drug, FK-506, is proving to be more powerful and less toxic than cyclosporine. In more than 100 patients taking FK-506 for up to eight months, the rate of organ rejection was only one-sixth as high as in those using cyclosporine. Side effects were minimal, though long-term consequences...