Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will only succeed in doing that out of strength," Herzog said...
...their wheat from us; we keep governments in power there which force them to plant only coffee, so we can get it cheaply and control the wheat market. I spoke of guerrillas who want to overthrow those governments and our corporate influence, and showed how, if they succeed, the corporations will squeeze workers tighter here at home. "Either they put you in uniform and send you off to prop up dictatorships, or they take it out on your hide back here. Profit's the goal, not your wellbeing; the two don't go together as well as we've been...
...chief, and C.E. Meyer, senior vice president in charge of finance. Part of the reason for the restructuring, according to analysts: TWA, which lost a record $81 million in the first eleven months of last year, has not found a top-notch executive from outside the company to succeed Tillinghast. Thus the board decided that the most effective way to strengthen the ailing line's leadership was to merge its best available talent in a single office...
...executives should practice a strong "power gaze" in front of a mirror. If they can't maintain it without twitching, Xylocaine, an anesthetic ointment, should be applied to the face before important meetings. It is all reminiscent of former Adman Shepherd Mead's 1952 book, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Mead, now living in Switzerland, says, "I wonder if they'll make a musical out of Michael's book...
...most significant thing about The Adams Chronicles is that it succeeds in its own terms-in dramatizing that usually unyielding material, the lives of the great. The writers have found dramatic forms spacious enough to include the acute psychological detail, and firm enough in outline to maintain reasonable suspense about precisely how the characters will respond to historical events. Solidly professional direction and an expert, huge-172 speaking parts-corps of actors have completed the project. They succeed in humanizing a family to which we have, somehow, attached the word "distinguished" and then let slip from our historical imaginations...