Word: succeeding
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...first you don't succeed . . . From Battlestar Galactica to this season's V, science-fiction shows have stubbornly failed to take off in prime time. CBS apparently can deduce no earthly reason why, so it is trying with Otherworld. A family of five, touring the Great Pyramid of Egypt, is transported through a "space-time warp" to a mysterious world where the good people are androids, the bad people have ray guns, and no one is allowed to venture into the "forbidden zone." The family seems terribly blase about all this, but no more so than the series' creators: folks...
...bolster his bank account, and Interior Secretary William Clark plans to ride back to his 880-acre ranch near San Luis Obispo. Two others in the California contingent are also poised to shift. After a bruising inquiry into his finances, Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese was renominated last week to succeed Attorney General William French Smith, thus bringing Smith closer to his goal of returning to private law practice...
...front runner to succeed Clark appears to be Secretary of Energy Donald Hodel. A native Oregonian, Hodel is as ideologically conservative as Watt but far more approachable. Should Hodel take the helm from Clark, the White House may try to carry out Reagan's 1980 campaign pledge to abolish the Energy Department, folding many of its functions into an expanded Interior Department and shifting its nuclear weapons research to the Pentagon...
...many other Boston-area executives are turning to Ikuko Atsumi, 43, a Japanese poet and feminist who has lived in the U.S. since 1981. She is president of the New England Japanese Center, which teaches often bewildered Americans how to do business with her countrymen. Says Atsumi: "To succeed in Japan, the fastest shortcut is to learn Japanese culture...
Above all, under the 22nd Amendment Reagan's second term must be his last. To succeed as a lame duck, he will have to revise some familiar assumptions about presidential power and its exercise. But then, he has spent four years doing ex- actly that...