Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Committee for the Alliance for Progress (COMAP) appointed by Secretary of Commerce Luther H. Hodges to make a businesslike appraisal of the program. Reported COMAP's Chairman J. Peter Grace, 49, international-minded president of W. R. Grace & Co: the Alliance "in its present size and form cannot succeed." Investors are frightened away by the "unfavorable business climate" in Latin America. Profits are low, risks high. The U.S., continued Grace, should adopt a "carrot-and-stick approach." with grants and loans to encourage Latin Americans to enact laws more hospitable to private investment. The committee recommended greater tax incentives...
...possible that diplomatic negotiations will succeed," said Cooper, but his firmeet tone of conviction was reserved for the statement, "We must not tolerate the establishment of a Russian base with Russian troops or weapons in the Western hemisphere." Cooper added, "My position is based on national security, not the Monroe Doctrine...
...reflect that an alliance in which all the advanced and sophisticated technologies were left to one of the partners, and the rest were relegated to supply a complement of conventional arms in war, and in commerce a modest contribution of Scotch whisky and compact cars . . . would not ul timately succeed in retaining the loyalty of European electors...
...loves Reuben truly, but she cannot see that if love solves her problem it does not solve Reuben's. Passionately the psychologist tells her: "Your love is not enough! These children need discipline. Their lives are a never-ending battle for small victories. No one ever needed to succeed in any little way so much as these children do." The cli max harshly proves the point...
...Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. last week announced a successor to Chairman-President Ralph W. Burger, who resigned as president because of age, the reaction in public of A. & P.'s board was neither unanimous nor routine. Burger proposed that Vice President and Treasurer John D. Ehrgott succeed him. All 14 inside directors, officers of A. & P. or its operating divisions, voted yes. Surprisingly, six outside directors* elected to the board five years ago vigorously took exception with a clear and unmistakable...