Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with time running out on the Crimson's power play, it looked like it might succeed...
Authorities suspect that the Commission's contract for the hit went to John Gotti, 45, a stocky Gambino captain and protege of Castellano's ruthless second-in-command, Aniello Dellacroce, who died of natural causes earlier this month. Dellacroce apparently wanted Gotti to succeed him, but Castellano seemed to have been grooming Belotti for the No. 2 job. Though the intemperate Gotti is unlikely to rise to the top of the Mafia's largest family, the killings nevertheless may signal the ascent of a hungrier younger generation of mob leaders. The head may be dead, but the body lives...
...search went forward with all the secrecy that might have attended the selection of a Pope. And last week, when the Yale Corporation announced a new president to succeed the retiring A. Bartlett Giamatti, there was little doubt the university had picked a man of very proper parts. "We had a rather long list of qualities we were looking for," said Cyrus R. Vance, former Secretary of State and head of the search committee, "and Benno C. Schmidt Jr. had more of them than anyone else." That takes in a lot of people, more than 400 original prospects...
Many corporate consolidations, of course, make good business sense. They are most likely to succeed when one company buys another for its complementary products or skills. Procter & Gamble, which acquired Richardson-Vicks for $1.24 billion in October, wanted the company for its popular brands, including Oil of Olay and NyQuil. Recalled an insider: "It was less expensive for P&G to buy into a line of new products than to develop them on its own." The experience and marketing skills of the two firms should go well together...
...contrast, the American avant-garde appears largely to have conquered the angst that it felt during the '60s. It has lost much of its rebelliousness, but in so doing has discovered a more delicate mode of expression as well as a broader popular base. To refine and succeed is not necessarily to become complacent or sell out. The crucial thing for any style is to avoid both self- satisfaction and self-parody, to keep the visions fresh. If The Juniper Tree is any indication, the American avant-garde is alive and well, just a little older and wiser...