Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's first stop was his most important: the United Auto Workers' annual convention, in Los Angeles, where he made a speech to 6,000 delegates, alternates and guests. The delegates had gathered to elect Douglas Fraser to succeed retiring President Leonard Woodcock, the Administration's choice as head of the U.S. liaison office in Peking (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Although most of the U.A.W.'s leaders were among Carter's strongest union supporters last year, many of them fear that he is abandoning his campaign promises of social reforms in favor of balancing the budget...
...gangsters reported on the progress they have made in expanding their rackets. Bruno's men came to complain about the New Yorkers who are moving into Atlantic City, traditionally Philadelphia Mob territory. And everyone wanted to pay respect to Dons Aniello Dellacroce and Carmine Galante, front runners to succeed Carlo Gambino as the Mafia's next boss of bosses...
...During a student strike at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1970, Novelist John Earth, a teacher there, remarked: "I'm totally bored by the situation, the critical importance of which I absolutely affirm." If they are to succeed with the Russians, U.S. negotiators must always cultivate a certain fatalism. The Soviets sign agreements when they believe it is valuable for them to do so; otherwise, they do not sign...
...William Rogers as a "leaker," and soon outmaneuvered the Secretary and took control of foreign policy. In Nixon's view, Kissinger found John Connally a "potential rival" for power in the Administration. To avoid a replay of the Rogers-Kissinger feud, Nixon dropped Connally as his choice to succeed Rogers as Secretary of State and gave Kissinger the job instead...
...combination of rising demand and crop losses due to bad weather caused the price per pound of raw sugar delivered in New York to multiply almost six times between January and November, to a high of 64^0. Angry consumers organized boycotts, but growers believed that they would not succeed. They thought sugar was one of those little luxuries that people would pay almost anything...