Word: succeeded
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...York; Henry Gonzalez, 62, and Kika de la Garza, 51, of Texas. Since the defeat of the late Joseph Montoya of New Mexico in 1976, there have been no Hispanic members of the Senate. There is only one Hispanic Governor: New Mexico's Jerry Apodaca, and he cannot succeed himself when his term expires in January. Mexican-American ballots nailed down Texas' 26 electoral votes for Jimmy Carter in 1976, and he reciprocated by appointing more Hispanics to federal positions than any of his predecessors. But, while they hold 112 of 1,201 presidentially assigned posts, none...
...industrial parks, Neumaier in 1974 founded a Japanese subsidiary and spent $500,000 in a futile search for contracts. Says he: "We wouldn't have stayed all this time if we hadn't been encouraged by government bureaucrats who said, 'Be patient, you'll eventually succeed.' " Fed up with meaningless reassurances, Neumaier braced Hiroo Takizawa, the MITI environmental guidance director. Takizawa conceded that Japan intended to protect its own. Said he: "The Japanese government believes that it is very important to nourish Japan's knowledge and technology industries and has been trying to develop...
...agreed that "the Bible is a sufficient guide to all problems of modern life," 78% said the U.S. is "unquestionably the best country in the world," and 47% (precisely the same figure as in 1924) said, "It is entirely the fault of a man himself if he does not succeed." Though today's students are more tolerant, say the researchers: "We have not been able to find any trace of the disintegration of traditional social values described by observers who rely on their own intuitions...
Altman's myth-shattering, by contrast, seems almost regretful. He recognizes the populist element inherent in so many American myths--the belief that the determined individual can succeed in the face of opposition by large organizations--and he seems to wish the myths were true, even though he knows they aren't. Latter-day Icarus Brewster McCloud falls to his death in the Houston Astrodome; McCabe is killed by the corporate goons; Philip Marlowe plays the sap; the gamblers in California Split lose. Maybe that's not the way you'd like it, says Altman, but that...
...pretty silly stuff, but the chief peculiarity of this film, based on Ira Levin's bestseller, is the expensive sobriety with which it has been mounted. Director Schaffner seems determined to overwhelm our disbelief with production values-a strategy that frequently threatens to succeed. To begin with, there is the fascination of watching Gregory Peck, Mr. Integrity himself, playing Mengele. He sports a nasty little mustache and a stiff posture, and seems to be enjoying his change of face and pace. But no more than Laurence Olivier, no less, relishes playing the old Jew. Wise and crusty, frail...