Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...become quite fond of the Polish people over the course of this assignment, and have made a number of friends -among them, members of the party," says Kalb. "For everyone's sake, I hope their experiment with a more humane and democratic form of Communism is allowed to succeed...
What experts think it takes to succeed at State...
Most of the new members of the Politburo are considered economic reformers. Stefan Olszowski, 49, who was thought to be in line to succeed Gierek last summer, privately criticized food price increases that touched off the 1976 riots and later drew up a blueprint for economic change. Tadeusz Grabski, 51, a trained economist, was bounced from the Central Committee in 1979 for assailing Gierek's "misguided" economic policies. In domestic political matters, the refashioned Politburo is believed to be pragmatic, though its newest member, Mieczyslaw Moczar, 66, is a ruthless hardliner. As Interior Minister in the late 1960s...
Even if the primary proposal of the new conservative consensus, tax cuts for the wealthy, signifies a genuine concern for national welfare instead of corporate greed, "supply-side economics" cannot succeed in revitalizing America. Their atavistic prescription of freemarket policies to bolster productivity exemplifies the failure of modern economic theory to adapt to the complex problems of either an increasingly interdependent global economy or a fragmented American society...
...economic actors that would eradicate the misallocation of resources, stemming from interest group haggling. His idea is intriguing, if utopian, but it still fails to address the issue of those who are represented neither by corporation, bureaucracy or union. Muller's array of strategic planning and targeting might possibly succeed in reversing declining productivity rates and other inflationary trends. But measures based on the corporate sector, as most of his are, will not affect the prosperity of those worst off and most likely to revolt against a system that allows their poverty...