Word: succeeded
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...hard-liners in the Communist Party and the People's Liberation Army that he can control Chinese society. "Hard-liners are on the rise," notes Andrew Nathan, a political scientist at Columbia University. "They have more voice in the regime." Jiang needs their support if he is to succeed Deng, and the hard-liners have thought him too soft in the past...
...whole messy, historic budget fight has consumed so much of the energy he had hoped to spend renewing American civilization. The merry cybernaut wants a new moral order, not just a new political one, in which the poor will find their salvation on the Internet and private charities will succeed where government bureaucracies have failed. However great Newt's achievement in political terms, it was not enough for people who talked in terms of rearranging the moon and planets, and saw in Newt the chance for galactic change...
Will Gates succeed in doing for the info highway what he did for desktop computing? Microsoft seems to be leaving little to chance. In December the Justice Department issued a new round of subpoenas as part of an ongoing investigation of Microsoft's Internet strategy. The latest complaint: when Windows 95 users try to connect to the Net, Microsoft's software wipes out the Internet settings of its rivals. Company executives offer no apologies. In a statement that could serve as their chairman's credo, they insist that the problem is caused not by any flaws in Microsoft's software...
TERRORISTS SUCCEED BY REMAINING FACELESS. THEIR very anonymity allows them to move unnoticed among and around the people they plan, for reasons of their own, to maim or murder. But terrorists also occasionally get caught, although often, alas, after they have done their worst. And then the sight of their faces only deepens the mystery of their actions...
...SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING Winsome Matthew Broderick could have used a little more edge in this tale of maneuvering through the corporate jungle. But bright, innovative sets and a strong supporting cast fashioned a jubilant Broadway revival of Frank Loesser's 1961 musical...