Word: succeeded
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...dollars for the President's "kinder, gentler" programs) led some to conclude that he was allowing the Administration considerable wiggle room to raise taxes without using the dreaded T word. Watching Bush and Darman play out the game may become a full- time occupation. They could succeed. Congress is not eager to force legally mandated across-the-board budget cuts next fall. After posturing for partisan effect, the Hill may be more than willing to become a co-conspirator in permitting Bush to backtrack...
...image. His strategy: to make himself increasingly useful to Bush; build on that relationship to win the respect of other Administration leaders and then members of Congress; and trust their confidence eventually to be reflected in the news media and among the public. If he can make that strategy succeed, the rewards can be great. Five of the past ten Vice Presidents have eventually moved into the Oval Office, and two more have been nominated by their parties for the White House. So the whole nation has a stake in whether the Vice President can gradually make the phrase President...
...Another decline theorist, Mancur Olson, laid out the case in his 1982 classic The Rise and Decline of Nations. Olson showed that mature societies start to decline when layers of powerful special-interest groups -- inefficient producers, inflexible unions, governmental bureaucracies -- succeed in impeding the normal "creative destruction" of capitalism. In order to hold on to what they have, they stave off change. But in the end, the whole society pays for the accumulated obsolescences and inefficiencies. The result is decline...
Experimenting with every tack in life, Trotman has seemed to succeed in most of her endeavors. Although she admits that she is "a spaz in basketball," she displays the inherent athletic ability and mental endurance so intrinsic in Olympians. She says she loves all sports and that they'll always be an important part of her life, but hockey and sailing are her favorites...
What better way to police a company than to sign up a former top cop? Wall Street's Drexel Burnham Lambert, which agreed last month to settle criminal- fraud charges, plans to hire a new chairman for its holding company. Drexel's choice to succeed Robert Linton: John Shad, the U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Drexel is also recruiting trade consultant Roderick Hills, another former SEC chief, to serve on the firm's board. Neither had formally accepted by week...