Word: succeeders
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...years without any income, a separate income, raising my six children. And after that I had time to go out and engage in politics. The feminist movement is not about success for women. It is about treating women as victims and about telling women that you can't succeed because society is unfair to you, and I think that's a very unfortunate idea to put in the minds of young women because I believe women can do whatever they want. Feminists don't honor successful women. You never hear them talking about Margaret Thatcher. Take Condoleezza Rice...
...public against the government. Thaksin has promised this demonstration will be larger than those pivotal years. Red shirt leaders have said they will marshal at least 300,000 protesters, but few analysts expect they will be able to raise more than a third of that - or, more importantly, succeed in toppling the government. "Thaksin wants to provoke violence so that everyone will say it's the fault of the 'evil military' and that he is the 'champion of democracy,'" says Kraisak Choonhavan, a member of the ruling Democrat Party and a former senator. "It's his only hope of bringing...
...Obama’s challenge.” Ford also urged attendees to actively combat existing social prejudices. “Though times have changed, people haven’t changed,” she said. “Our President transmogrified the land. But if he is to succeed, we have a lot to do.” BPLA Finance Director Crystalee J. Forbes ’11, called Ford a “pioneer in her own right, a leader who embodied the ideals she espoused.” Ford received the Charles Hamilton Houston Award for life...
...succeed, Chicago officials must also prove there is broad public support for hosting the Olympics. According to a recent survey commissioned by Chicago 2016, some 77% OF Chicagoans expressed such support. But there is still widespread skepticism and disapproval. There have already been significant anti-Olympics protests, one of which included thousands of the city's roughly 13,000-member police force, who are seeking a pay raise. Meanwhile, critics question the suitability of the moderately-sized Washington Park for an Olympic Stadium - and argue that despite officials' pledges to downsize the stadium after the Games, the park's landscape...
...album from indie favorites The Decemberists. The 17-song rock opera never stops plowing forward from the second it begins, with a mix of folk and in-your-face heavy metal that makes it one of the most inventive folk-rock albums in recent memory. Some songs do not succeed beyond their role as fragments of the melodramatic plot. But when the album is viewed as one cohesive folk-rock project, it acts as a bold statement of the band’s ambition.While the Portland-based band’s previous album, “The Crane Wife...