Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Right now, the rescue mission to save our season seems destined to be aborted. For the record, the Boston Red Sox will probably close out their schedule May 22 in Toronto against the Blue Jays, who will be struggling for their first American League East crown. If the Jays succeed, at least one newfound bastion of baseball will be able to while away the summer basking in glory...
...somebody developed a plan with a good possibility of success, I would be urging a confrontational course to demonstrate that you cannot humiliate the U.S. with impunity. But I would oppose some spasm that doesn't succeed. I would not take a step just to placate public opinion...
Industry Secretary Sir Keith Joseph called MacGregor "the best man available in the world." His salary will be $109,000, like that of the man he will succeed, Sir Charles Villiers, also 67. That is a big cut for MacGregor, who has been making as much as $1.2 million annually. But under a complex series of payments, the investment banking firm will be reimbursed for losing MacGregor's services. It will receive $1.5 million when MacGregor takes over the company in July. If he does not finish his three-year appointment, up to $1 million will have...
...worldwide in scope while only American Christianity is surveyed. because Rifkin shifts randomly between referring to post-'50s politics and 18th century ideas when he uses the term 'liberalism,' and because he seems willing to twist the evidence to support a very tenuous hypothesis, The Emerging Order finally succeeds only in raising the issue and prompting thought about where we want to go. Prophecy gives way to polemic, and so the book cannot succeed on its own terms, as an outline of the emerging situation...
...course, no manifesto means anyone can be counted a part of the conspiracy for marginal reasons--for example, a corporate exec who goes into est and "gets it"--which would make the network appear much larger than it really is. And with no political approach, how can it succeed, except through the nebulous "power of good ideas...