Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more professional than one ever used to be." An American journalist who has traveled with the Prince observes, "That guy works so hard you would think he was running for office." In a way he is. Although the office is his by birthright, Charles knows that he can succeed in it only by hard work. "I am planning to find out all I can about British life," the Prince has declared, "including the government, the civil service, business, agriculture, the unions?everything. And since I have a long time ahead of me, there is no point in trying...
...less anxious to succeed his mother than Charles. He certainly would never wish her to abdicate. Firstly, the longer you're in the job, the better...
...Caracas or as close as Lugano, just across the border in Switzerland. For many, the question is not so much the destination as it is how to get out of Italy with the means of supporting themselves in the manner to which they would like to become reaccustomed. Most succeed in spite of the law forbidding Italian residents to take more than $580 in lire out of the country. But authorities have started cracking down. Last month Actress Sophia Loren and her husband, Producer Carlo Ponti, were charged with having illegally transferred several million dollars abroad...
...state was cornered into granting its citizens all the privileges that this century can offer; it caused us considerable damage. Mainly, we lost the old spirit of pioneering, and we did not succeed in replacing it with a new spirit of pioneering suitable to circumstances of present-day society...
Perhaps the most important argument for selling the planes to the Saudis is that such a transaction would not alter the essential military fact of the Middle East: Israel's overwhelming superiority. If the Israeli lobby in Washington should succeed in quashing the deal, it could be a severe blow to U.S. national interest. The Saudis have made it clear that they would not only be angry and disappointed but would take their business elsewhere. France, for example, would be only too glad to sell them its own latest jet fighters, the Mirages F-1 and 2000, with...