Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want you to relax completely and to think of all the wonderful feelings which you have now," he said, in contrast to his earlier tricks. "Tomorrow, you will concentrate harder on what you study, and you will pursue your interests more avidly because now you know that you can succeed. You will tell yourself that without even thinking about it from this point...
...continue on a largely hit-or-miss basis. One chemical, called aspartame, was found by G.D. Searle & Co. during research on an ulcer drug. The FDA had approved aspartame's sale, but stayed that action pending a new look at Searle's test data. Another contender to succeed saccharin is a chemical called xylitol; used as a chewing-gum sweetener in tests in Finland and the U.S., it sharply reduced formation of cavities. But it costs more than sugar and has the same number of calories...
...then edit Saturday Review. The price was from $3 million to $6.5 million, depending on various future expenses, and part of the money comes from the Straus and Tucker families. Cousins, 61, will stay on as editor for a couple of years as he trains Tucker to succeed...
Died. Frances P. Bolton, 91, for nearly 29 years a member of Congress from Ohio; in Lyndhurst, Ohio. Bolton was named to succeed her husband Chester in the House when he died suddenly in 1939 because, presumably, "I knew his thinking. Actually, I didn't have the slightest idea what he thought." Deemed the "Congressman's Congressman" by Eleanor Roosevelt, Bolton was the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee when she was defeated for re-election at the age of 83. An internationalist, she was fascinated by Africa, often paying her own expenses to visit...
...odds still are that the T.U.C. and the government will succeed in hammering out some sort of agreement, if only to prevent the political calamity of an open breakdown of the social contract. The question is whether Phase 3 will be effective enough to serve as the government's main weapon against inflation. If not, the Labor government will find itself in the ironic position of having to rely increasingly on the conservative strategy of holding down inflation by restricting the money supply. Healey, in fact, has already said as much, arguing that "wages can only rise above...