Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...control of the bank, and the hulking (6 ft. 4 in.) country slicker from Young Harris (pop. 544) helped turn the area into a prosperous carpet center with his high-risk loans to local small businesses. He soon parlayed his bank connections into a paper empire, tried unsuccessfully to succeed his friend Jimmy Carter as Governor of Georgia, took over the National Bank of Georgia and followed Carter to Washington as the President's Budget Director and closest confidant. But last week, a year and a half after being forced to resign his office because of his questionable financial...
...flip a coin on whether we succeed...it's iffy," he added...
Back in April when the Senior Class Committee voted unanimously to send out a letter publicizing the newly-created Stephen Biko Memorial Fund, there was great hope that the Fund would succeed in bringing attention to an issue of vital concern to Harvard seniors and would directly assist the victims of South Africa's apartheid system. Though no one at the time viewed the Fund in and of itself as an adequate response to the challenge put forward by the Harvard Corporation's investment policy, everyone agreed that it would be a step in the right direction...
...Four Modernizations were designed to give the outside world the impression that the mainland was going to turn into a huge market. But in fact no country can be modernized unless it can first modernize its thinking and its political system. Unless Communist China does this, it can never succeed with the Four Modernizations...
...know the name of his wife (Kim Sung Ae) or how many children he has (at least two). They are, however, aware of his eldest son, Kim Jong II, 36, a party functionary. The official publicity campaign on his behalf suggests that Kim the younger is being groomed to succeed his father...