Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Under the guns, in an apartment building in downtown Sarajevo, a group of Bosnians waited out the battle. Nijaz Mutevelic, 66, was resigned. The Bosnians might not succeed, but he was glad they were trying. "The question is very simple," he said. "Is such a life worth living, or is it not better to fight?" His wife Rada and their neighbors Senada Hukovic and Ksenija Crvenkovic agreed. "Politics has not managed to tear us apart," said Crvenkovic. "And see, I'm a Croat, Rada is a Serb, and Nijaz and Senada are Muslims. That's Sarajevo...
...heavy artillery pieces and mortars zeroed in on approach routes. An uphill battle against the Serbs would not only produce huge Bosnian casualties but would also open the entire capital to retaliatory shelling from Serb positions. The bloodshed would be sickening, and there is no certainty the Bosnians could succeed no matter how professional their forces have become or how high their morale...
...vote to end debate on Foster after three hours today. "It's brilliant," says TIME's Karen Tumulty. "He's won on both counts: it looks like he was fair in bringing this to a vote, and he's engineered it so there's no chance Foster can succeed." Knowing the doctor would likely fall short, Dole is allowing supporters a scant 24 hours to regroup before a second and final vote Thursday. Overnight, Tumulty reports, Democratic lobbying will target four Republican senators, three of whom must change their minds if the Senate is to reach a decision on Foster...
...older speakers elaborated upon a bit too automatically. Bernard Kouchner, the French doctor who co-founded Madecins Sans Frontieres and Madecins du Monde, stated the theme when he spoke about Bosnia: Today there are 37 wars going on in the world. The adults have failed, he said. Youth must succeed...
Maybe no one is the perfect person for a job that depends so much on dumb luck in guessing the public's whims. An idiot could succeed in such a position, a genius could fail, simply by picking or passing on a Star Wars or a Forrest Gump. It's also possible that Ovitz was unsuited for the position. As a talent agent, he is a seller in a seller's market; the studios want his clients and will pay hugely for them. As MCA czar, he would have been a buyer in that market. The fellow who helped jack...