Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cash will succeed King in his role as Assistant Director of Admissions...
...Buchanan, the feminist movement is against the will of God. "Rail as they will against discrimination, women are not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism.... The momma bird builds the nest. So it was, so it ever shall be. Ronald Reagan is not responsible for this...
...quietly added some new and pointed questions to its routine polling. Its telephone polltakers began asking hundreds of voters in New Hampshire whether they would be more or less inclined to vote for Buchanan if they knew he once said that women lacked "ambition and the will to succeed," and that South Korea, Taiwan and Japan should be armed with nuclear weapons. More than 70% of those polled said they would be less likely to vote for Buchanan. Thus a campaign was born. Last week Dole began airing TV and radio ads that featured damaging quotations from Buchanan on those...
...know him speculate that his need to strike out on his own is to some extent born of necessity, given his inability, at this point in his career, to share power or work harmoniously for others. Diller himself doesn't sound unduly deferential when he describes his drive to succeed: "A lot of it has to do with willfulness, whether you're capable of imposing your will on the process. To the extent that you insist, you at least have a prayer...
...musical does succeed--by the end of the play, the audience fully understands this black hole of apartheid. We are shown countless examples of the dilemmas imposed by unjust laws. And it is evident that the actors deeply empathize with their characters; who could not help but be impassioned by the roles of a misguided and angry black youth, a fervent, humane lawyer or a sadistic foul-mouthed...