Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York City, among high school kids, it's almost impossible to stop pot smoking. You can try, but you won't succeed. Rather than saying you must never ever, what you have to keep saying is that this prevents you from having real relationships. It prevents you from understanding what is going on in your life. It prevents you from having real happiness. And it's dangerous...
...main part of their identity. For most, marijuana is an ancillary pleasure of growing up comfortably in the '90s, not the least bit incompatible with varsity athletics, the spring musical or advanced-placement chemistry. After all, most of the kids at New Trier will go on to succeed, just as their parents did. The fact that they have tried pot won't cancel out the perks of good breeding and unbounded opportunity...
President Clinton, who retained Kessler, last week praised his "tireless commitment to better the lives of our citizens." Whoever is named to succeed Kessler will have a hard time matching his credentials: Harvard M.D., law degree from the University of Chicago, a practicing pediatrician. The last may explain his preventive philosophy at the FDA: "When you win in pediatrics, you win big. You win 72 years...
...boosted opera's pulling power, but she rejects the TV comparison. "Young people are craving something beyond television sensibility," she says. "We need myth and large-scale emotions--dramas that present magnetic qualities. I think we want something we can't get in our own lives. The three tenors succeed because they are larger than our world...
...outward violence, or violence turned inward upon the self, but a kind of protective numbing of the emotional self following some interminable psychological chaos--a kind of writer's block, a lover's block. Bashfully and impulsively, their songs attempt to define themselves, to heal their centers, achieve form, succeed, each reaching out delicate as snail antennae hoping to rebut the past. Admittedly, as Kozelek acknowledged, his songs sometimes come off "whiny and pretentious" but most of the time meaningful, as when in "Uncle Joe" the narrator pleads, I'm looking at the ceiling with an awful feeling of loss...