Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...test will come in early April, when his overall package of spending and tax cuts is on the table. Already, a small group of moderate Republicans has met several times with conservative Democrats to discuss how to link any future tax cuts to deficit reduction. Even if G.O.P. moderates succeed in reducing the scope of the $500-per-child tax credit, an enormous tax break for the wealthy would still loom. Democrats charge that more than 50% of the remaining $85 billion in tax benefits in the contract would still go to the 10% of families whose incomes exceed...
...better world than ours in which plum roles were awarded solely on merit, Matthew Broderick probably wouldn't have landed the lead in Broadway's buoyant revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. New York City's army of unemployed actors must include a number of winsome unknowns who can dance more crisply and sing more surely than...
...succeed with a musical such as this one? By playing it straight. This is no update. We're still back in 1961, and the World Wide Wicket Co. continues to be a domain of rigid sexual roles, where men are the executives and women the secretaries. The plot remains a complementary blend of monomanias: Finch has eyes only for the top of the corporate ladder, and Rosemary, his secretary (winningly played by Megan Mullally), has eyes only for matrimony...
...three months, his personal security force has had little trouble foiling each one. Talabani and the Iraqi National Congress, the umbrella for all Iraqi dissident groups, had long hoped that a combined assault by Kurds in the north, Shi'ites in the south and mutinous troops in Baghdad could succeed. Last November, the head of Iraqi military intelligence during the Gulf War, Major General Wafiq Samaraii, defected to Kurdistan with a promise that he could deliver an Iraqi division willing to attack Saddam. A brigade would capture the Iraqi leader on March 4 in his hometown of Tikrit, where...
...tolerates an unacceptable level of inequality, especially compared to our industrialized counterparts. Life expectancy and infant mortality rates in our ghettoes are on par with countries like Bangladesh. Reversing a half-century of narrowing inequality, Reagan-Bush policies pushed America towards even greater economic disparity. If the Republicans again succeed in limiting the government's already feeble attempts to empower the disadvantaged, the resulting misery and unrest may destroy American society. The American people cannot afford to let the government abandon its obligations...