Word: succeeded
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...nicknamed that course "Famous Negroes I Have Known". Though some members of this University at that point wished to discredit the students' criticisms as being of the white professor instead of the course, saner members of the population acknowledged the fact that no professor, black or white, could succeed where Friedel failed...
...pipeline workers are Alaskan residents, who plan to stay in the state and to spend and invest their wages locally. But there are also the out-of-staters, "boomers," who come into Alaska generally to take as much money out of the state as they can. Those who succeed in getting jobs are, at the best, a drain on the Alaskan economy. But the out-of-staters who can't find work often resort to crime, which has skyrocketed since construction began in '73, in order to afford the state's high costs of living. Pipeline jobs are getting scarcer...
...Nashville headquarters. In a session that lasted more than ten hours, the board voted to strip Franklin Jarman of his executive responsibilities. Franklin, after a futile attempt to resist, voted philosophically for his own demotion; afterward, associates described him as being "in a state of shock." Who eventually may succeed him is impossible to guess now, but his temporary replacement, Blackie, has already earned at least a footnote in the company's history. He is the first Genesco chief executive ever whose name is not Jarman...
...conclude: the foregoing plan is comprehensive and must be judged as a whole, since it probably cannot succeed if it is implemented only in part, or piece by piece. It is the product of lengthy discussions, reports, and deliberations pursued in numerous forums throughout Harvard-Radlciffe over the past several years. In developing the plan, the chairpersons of the Task Force on Advising and Counseling and the Task Force on College Life have been consulted, as well as students, faculty, masters, House support staff, and administrators...
When Mayor Daley died last month, people talked about a power vacuum reminiscent of that following the death of Stalin. Like other leaders of his ilk, Daley fancied himself immortal and groomed no successor. Even his son, State Sen. Richard M. Daley, whom the mayor supposedly wanted to succeed him, had been given no position of power from which to exert control over his father's domain. And many regulars hate...