Word: succeeded
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Though it is certainly true that the best teams overcome adversity and manage to succeed against the odds, it is also a fact that for Ivy schools, the Penn-Princeton road trip is among the most grueling weekends in collegiate basketball...
Gore and Gephardt had been rivals at least since their brutal sparring as also-rans in the 1988 presidential primaries and probably since the day in 1977 when they arrived in Congress as the smartest boys in a class in which all the members considered themselves most likely to succeed. Now, in challenging Gore for the 2000 nomination, Gephardt was prepared to wage nothing less than a struggle for their party's soul. All of which might have given the two plenty to talk about at dinner, except they didn't talk about any of it. Gore never brought...
Family tensions rose further over Hussein's insistence that one of his sons be designated to succeed Hassan. He was furious when Hassan said the matter should wait until he became King, leaving the door open to name his son Rashid. Just before Hussein was found to have cancer again last year, the King signaled that he favored Hamzah, 18, the eldest son of Queen Noor, to become second in line...
...centuries ago, would have named the English language and the English-speaking peoples as Most Likely to Succeed? Why is it not, say, German culture rather than American that saturates the globe? Why not Japanese, or Spanish, or French? How to account for the dominance of English as the language of the world's elites, or for the military/industrial/financial pre-eminence that, after two world wars, passed from the British Empire to the Americans...
...king was plainly unhappy with his brother's performance. "The letter explaining Hassan's ouster as crown prince was more abrasive than it needed to be," says MacLeod. "It refers to palace infighting and meddling in the army during his absence, and serious differences of opinion over who would succeed Hassan to the throne." Hussein always wanted to leave the throne to his own progeny, and when Hassan cast doubt on that prospect, the king wielded the ax. It is a monarchy, after...