Word: succeeded
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...ironic that so many successful stand-up comedians are said to have 'really made it' when they land their own sitcoms. These skilled practitioners, who generated humor from real life, and their own wits for years, 'succeed' when they trade in their own clever repartee for mindless scripts...
...with us, you're against us" attitude has its strongest repercussions in Washington. Local NRA members, the grass-roots companions of the federal lobbyists, lead extensive campaigns against candidates for national office who support gun control. They succeed because they have the money. The NRA contributed to the campaigns of 22 of the 35 winners in last November's elections for U.S. Senate. Of the 87 new House members, 60 received NRA funds...
...July 1, Jewett will step down from the deanship, a position he has held for the past 10 years. McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis '68 will succeed...
...succeed, we must fix our gaze beyond today's adults," Kessler said. "Nicotine addiction could go the way of smallpox or polio...
...salute sounded at the Elysee Palace in Paris today asConservative Jacques Chirac, mayor of Paris for nearly two decades, succeeded Socialist Francois Mitterrand. "I feel that hope has been vested in me," Chirac said in his inaugural address, promising to govern with "dignity, simplicity and loyalty to our republican values." Chirac, 62, failed in two earlier bids for the presidency.TIME Paris bureau chief Tom Sanctonsays the excitement was contagious among crowds who lined the Champs Elysee this morning. "The whole country's rooting for this administration to succeed," Sancton says. "In France, there's a sense that you have...