Word: succeeded
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...Radcliffe College, concluded that as a result of their childhood training and various social pressures of home and family, many women are hobbled by a fear of success?a learned fear that the risks of succeeding are "loss of femininity," loss of womanly identity. The "fear" is also quite practical?in the face of expected discrimination, a woman may decide that the effort to succeed is not worth...
Despite these seemingly impressive gains, it is far from certain whether Moscow's African strategy will succeed. In the past decade the Soviets have suffered setbacks almost as dramatic as their gains. After the 1966 coup d'état in Ghana ousted Kwame Nkrumah, Moscow lost nearly all of the influence it had carefully cultivated with that country. The Soviets were also badly burned by changes of regime or mood in the Congo (now Zaïre) and, most notably, Egypt. In Mozambique, Moscow has lost out to the Chinese: Peking has been more generous with...
...standards, rock-bottom beliefs, a religious faith) but what is "best" for the child. Every effort is made to "understand" children, even infants under one: what is going on in their minds and how we might get "closer" to them, become more "empathetic" toward them, succeed in "helping" them along-through various "periods," "crises...
Penny Whirligig. Dravot and Carnehan succeed beyond their wildest dreams, and then fall farther than their worst fears. They sweep into the country with a shipment of rifles, organize the natives into armies and take over as rulers. Danny is taken for a god and made king. The .wealth of the entire country is at hand and ready for plunder. Danny, however, decides to live the dream, take a wife and settle into monarchy. Before Peachy starts back across the mountain with half the national treasury, Danny asks him to stay for the wedding. At the ceremony, Danny...
Those who succeed, however, share something of a revelation...