Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current period of crisis could still prove to be Iran's Armageddon. But all last week there were encouraging signs that the Shah's desperate attempt to keep the situation under control might succeed. Manning a bank of telephones at Tehran's well-guarded Niavaran Palace, he ordered army commanders to keep down the civilian death toll, something they have not always tried to do in the past. He announced the release of 122 political prisoners, including Karim Sanjabi, leader of the opposition National Front, who had been arrested a month earlier after visiting Khomeini in France...
...mood of weariness, she decided to retire from foreign affairs, and became secretary general of Israel's Labor Party. When Premier Levi Eshkol died suddenly of a heart attack in 1969, the Labor Party asked her to succeed him, not only out of love but to avoid a split between factions loyal to the flamboyant Moshe Dayan and his archrival Yigal Allon. She duly burst into tears, expounded her devotion to her children and grandchildren, professed inadequacy-and accepted...
...movements overshoot," Riesman says, but adds that "this movement has not achieved its goals and will not succeed until there are as many women, percentage wise, majoring in chemistry at MIT, as there are men." Riesman is right. Look around at the meager number of tenured women at Harvard--there are only eleven. Read the polls which tell you there are fewer college-educated women entering the job market than men without college educations. The women's movement has certainly publicized its cause, but seems to be sinking into quicksand along the road somewhere...
...Diversity at Amherst means more than just accepting minority students," Banegas said yesterday, adding, "We refuse to sacrifice our cultural values and group identity to succeed at Amherst...
Rocky had some appeal because of its innocent chutzpah. Anyone who had the nerve to make such a corny movie deserved to succeed. Stallone is like a child who, upon receiving a piece of candy for performing some cute and harmless stunt, promptly performs the trick all over again. Only the second time the act has no spontaneity, and becomes mildly annoying. Let's hope Stallone doesn't try it a third time...