Word: succeeded
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...travelogue Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? (henceforth acronymed as WITWIOBL), Spurlock resolves to comb the Islamic world in an attempt to locate al-Qaeda's CEO. Taking a cue from Hollywood action movies - that in impossible missions, where armies and statecraft fail, one lone hero can succeed - he travels to Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Pakistan, speaking to and occasionally learning from street vendors, pundits, schoolkids, government officials and U.S. soldiers. To most of them he poses the simple question that is the movie's title. Will anyone tell him? Hey, ya never know...
...myth that thousands of scientists and their teams are working feverishly to create biofuels from nonfood plants grown on land unsuitable for food production. The science is still young. We could not have landed on the moon without first launching a primitive plane at Kitty Hawk. But we will succeed. Mark Beyer, Detroit...
...need to find internships or entry-level positions at banks and other large institutions where they have a training program that can convert raw intelligence to specific intelligence.” As for himself, Zell said his zeal for risk taking and his desire to excel drove him to succeed. “I have always believed that everybody on this earth has a responsibility,” Zell said. “I think that responsibility is to test their limits. I’ve spent my whole life testing my limits. Can I do this...
...Should Albanel's plan succeed in creating a new generation of French collectors eager to keep France's modern art works at home,in some cases literally,the nation just may snatch its third place spot back from China. And if they can do that, perhaps French officials can come up with an equally efficient policy for getting the foreign-owned photos of their under-dressed First Lady back under domestic wraps...
...hour interview with TIME. "They're songs of departure about people who will never see each other again because they've gone to America." Brown, who is making a trip to the U.S. for meetings with President George W. Bush and the three Senators competing to succeed him, has been shaped both by the great minds of the Scottish Enlightenment, like Smith, and by a long engagement with the country that lured away so many of his compatriots. "I love the States," he says. When asked if he agrees with French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner's recent statement...