Word: succeeded
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...Pollak said. “And they moved a few tees a little bit.”But for Pollak, native of San Antonio, Texas, it was more than just a matter of getting used to the course, nor a gracious rearrangement of tees that helped him succeed.“I think I’m a lot quicker to pick up my game after a long break than some of the other guys,” Pollak said. “I’m from the South, which helps a bit too because the course we played...
...personal asides. And while there are very few grace-notes (his attempts at flowery descriptive phrases are both unnecessary and square), when he sticks to the facts of his subjects' lives, Eule tells a dramatic tale of the compromises that young doctors (especially women) must make in order to succeed. "No program wanted one of its residents to get pregnant," he writes at one point, rocketing to the heart of the medical training tradition - grueling hours and almost complete devotion to the job. As he writes, many hospitals seem to want to discourage their young doctors from even the idea...
...authorities are expecting further attacks by dissidents. Could such a campaign of violence destabilize the peace? "The [dissidents] have the advantage of a reasonably proximate objective, which is that they will create tensions that will eventually bring the [Northern Ireland] Assembly down. I do not think they will succeed in that," says Lord Bew. He adds the caveat, "Unless there is a particularly wild reaction from loyalists." Police and security services are bracing against the possibility of reprisals by Protestant paramilitary organizations...
...camp there are those who believe the Republican Party must modernize its message to account for changing circumstances. The columnist David Brooks has called these people the "reformers." Against them are the "traditionalists," who believe that Republicans need only recommit themselves to Ronald Reagan's agenda to succeed again. (Read "Can Michael Steele Broaden the Grand Old Party...
...would be destructive for the traditionalists to attempt to purge the reformers, who have some good ideas. But for the reformers to attempt to purge the traditionalists, who outnumber them, is just plain batty. If the reformers succeed, it will be by persuading traditionalists like Limbaugh, not bulldozing over them. (See the screwups of Campaign...