Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been a close call, the closest that Serafin, a 13-year veteran of TIME, or his fellow workers in Chicago can remember. "I never doubted that the magazine would come out," he says. "We were just too determined to succeed...
...short, that would become the Shah's reign so much as his leaving it-and swiftly at that. Despite the country's financial disarray and their many personal hardships, reported TIME Correspondent William McWhirter from Tehran last week, most Iranians seemed confident that their revolution would succeed. Even among the wealthy or those once loyal to the Shah, there was growing respect for a revolution that had been brought about, not through arms, but through civil disobedience and the sustained withdrawal of labor. Said an Iranian civil servant, himself still loyal to the Shah: "Sometimes there...
Khomeini also rejected an appeal from President Carter on Wednesday, in which he asked the religious leader to give the new government "a chance to succeed...
...Detroit labor lawyer outsider, waiting for his father to float to the top), Ron Carey (a rare, honest Teamster local president in New York), Allen Dorfman (who made millions from his insurance monopoly with the Teamsters, then helped loot the pension funds), Jackie Presser (Cleveland Teamster boss, jockeying to succeed Fitzsimmons), Harold Gibbons (progressive St. Louis Teamster leader, who Brill says could have turned the union around if he hadn't sold out to fast cars and women), and two pseudonymous rank'n'filers...
...claim that Brill just doesn't deal with the possibilities for reform in the union. The dissidents would rather Brill had looked into reform movements in other unions, the Mineworkers' anti-Tony Boyle campaign, say, or the Sadlowski insurgency in the Steelworkers, to figure out why such movements succeed or fail. That kind of analysis would have been much more useful than any series of profiles of the bosses, the dissidents...