Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little Jew boy on the make," someone tells young Duddy Kravitz. He has already been called the kind of "cretinous little moneygrubber who causes anti-Semitism," so there is clearly something in Buddy's dervish anxiety to succeed that rubs people the wrong way. It can be said, too, in favor of this sharp, funny movie that Buddy's desperate acquisitiveness is not sentimentalized or apologized for. It is only well understood...
...sales jobs." Realizing that women's own attitudes may block their progress, Boyle and Kirkman also conduct awareness sessions among female employees. After one session at Hercules, a woman echoed the comic-strip character Pogo: "We have seen the enemy, and it is us." Should Boyle and Kirkman succeed completely in changing the male attitude toward women workers, they would put themselves out of their present business. But they are not worried; they figure it will take at least a decade for women to win full equality with men in the corporate world. Meanwhile, the business is lucrative...
...easy because I felt so good. It was back again to small-time Ivy League football. The Cambridge humidity left me feeling akin to Blanche DuBois--avoiding all light and begging for another drink. But I got used to it. I was reacquainted with that compulsive Harvard desire to succeed, but I didn't conform. I actually had a good time when reading period rolled around and learned to avoid all talk about papers and exams. God, I was ecstatic about feeling so comfortable, so good. At long last: end of Step...
...that American foreign policies were responsible for keeping world-wide peace and were geared fundamentally to upholding democracy everywhere, there could be no basic reassessment in Congressional and public forums of purpose and whose ends our policies really serve. Now that even saintly Henry has not been able to succeed or perpetuate the image of success, maybe the United States is ready to give serious consideration to revamping its antiquated, Cold War politics and foreign diplomacy...
...state speechmaking trips technically shift the governorship to the next in line. After one such recent trip, James R. Mills, the state senate president pro tern, complained, "for the first time in history, no one knew who the Governor was. If Ed Reinecke didn't legally succeed to the powers of the Governor, then I did. No one knew for sure...