Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some observers of television were wondering last week if life would be making reruns out of art. In a move long-bruited, Roone Arledge, the energetic president of ABC Sports, was put in charge of the network's news division. Arledge will retain his sports job and succeed ABC News President William Sheehan, who last year hired Barbara Walters for $1 million a year to co-anchor the Evening News with Harry Reasoner. Sheehan is being demoted to senior vice president for news...
...find fault first-in Birmingham's cavalier disregard for documentation or in the complacent banality of his observations. For example, he traces the current class distinctions among blacks to the old divisions between house slaves and field slaves, then peremptorily concludes that the reason why blacks rarely succeed in business is that "they don't quite like each other." In a later chapter, he notes that blacks do make skilled surgeons, perhaps, he adds, "because they have especially deft and agile hands...
...President Carter's program to conserve energy is to succeed, U.S. suburbanites-the nation's most careless squanderers of energy-will have to change their attitudes substantially, and their life-styles somewhat, too. To learn how one representative American suburb uses energy, and how it has responded to Carter's call for conservation, TIME Correspondent Patricia Delaney went to Hinsdale, Illinois. Then, to see how another affluent suburb takes a different approach to the same problem, TIME Correspondent Barrett Seaman visited Rösrath, outside of Cologne, West Germany. Their reports...
...Because if the search committee believed that things as they now stand were as they should be, there wouldn't have been a search at all. Either Baaron Pittenger or John Reardon would have already been named to succeed Mr. Watson, and 60 Boylston St. wouldn't be like the high school senior about to open his college acceptance/rejection letters. Nervous, on edge, scared that the future might not be as pleasant as the past...
Afterward Veeck explained, "You have to start with what you inherit, and then you scuffle and upgrade. Develop attitudes. We began that last year. As a general rule, you have three seasons to succeed. If you don't win in three, the fans just want you to go away. This is not a classic team, but it will surprise some people...