Word: succeeded
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Webster and a fellow committee member, William Coleman Jr., a former Secretary of Transportation, resisted the idea of closing the two-block stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue when the study was begun after the apparently deliberate crash of a light plane at the mansion last September. "The only way terrorists succeed is to get the government to do something that makes the government look unstable," declared Webster. "The more you change things, the more they can be encouraged." During the discussions, when it was pointed out that Chelsea Clinton's bedroom was on the vulnerable Pennsylvania Avenue side of the White...
...friends say the killing is particularlytragic because it ended the hopes of a young womanwho rose from being a refugee from Vietnam to awell-liked student at Harvard. They painted animage of a young woman determined to succeed inthe face of daunting odds, a perfectionist drivenby awareness of a tough past...
...attended the Boston Technical High School,where she became the valedictorian of her seniorclass and was voted most likely to succeed. Shewas the only graduate in her public high schoolclass to attend Harvard, according to friends...
...order will only affect certain positions under his direct authority, though they will be scattered through 40 programs and 200 volunteer advisory boards. "Wilson's order," says Bonfante, "is primarily a symbolic expression of his own views" regarding federal policies. With the presidential race heating up, Wilson may succeed at making affirmative action a focal point...
Whether outre plots or gimmicky marketing will succeed in reviving the soaps remains to be seen. Traditionalists think that the tactics are unlikely to help. "We are not just competing with other forms of media and murder trials but with faster-paced, more sophisticated life-styles," notes veteran soap-opera writer Tom Citrano, formerly of General Hospital and currently with Loving. "It's not about coming up with spectacular plots, or comic-book stories, or public-service announcements but with stories that mirror contemporary life...