Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battle ended last week when the GSA announced that the sculpture will be moved to an as yet undetermined location. "Public art has a public responsibility," said the GSA's Dwight Ink. "For an art program to succeed, it must take into account how an art work impacts on the people who work there and on the public...
Following the riot, the People's Daily, the official party newspaper, speculated that the incident was triggered by "inadequate education for youth about civil behavior and the law." Municipal officials called for more ideological training in schools. Official anger may succeed in reining in China's rowdy soccer fans for a while. But Western diplomats, and even some Chinese, suggest that less, not more discipline is needed. They see the riot as a cathartic release of emotions that have had little opportunity for expression in a society where hard work, obedience and humility are demanded. "Some people would find...
...Washington's most persistent fears is that a determined terrorist group might succeed in stealing plutonium and bomb components. A congressional subcommittee on energy disclosed in 1982 that the guard force at one of the country's weapons plants failed to respond to a mock raid on a plutonium vault until 16 minutes after the "attackers" had left...
...when election-year politics can tend to send Congressmen scurrying for cover. The real support for tax reform just might have to come from the hustings. Not until Congress feels more pressure from voters to close loopholes than it does from special interests to create them will tax reform succeed. By throwing his immense prestige behind the cause, Reagan may have elevated tax reform from the empty promise of party platforms to a true litmus test for congressional candidates. Conceivably, both parties could even find themselves competing for the high ground of reform, engaging in a refreshing contest over which...
...former Roman Catholic seminarian in the Holy Cross congregation and the son of a West Roxbury, Mass., lumber salesman, will run what will be the 16th-largest U.S. industrial company. Shumway will be vice chairman of the new company. Dingman will be named president and in 1990 will succeed Hennessy as chief executive...