Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although some of the most dramatic fighting yet between strikers and police broke out last week around mines in Yorkshire, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher remained uncompromising. Addressing the Lord Mayor of London's annual banquet, she declared, "This challenge will not succeed. The government will hold firm." The Catholic bishops of England and Wales, however, were sympathetic to the miners in their first statement on the strike. N.U.M. President Arthur Scargill, speaking in the southern Wales town of Aberavon, was cheered wildly by an audience of over 4,000 when he condoned violence on the picket line...
There were unconfirmed reports that the 76-year-old Defense Minister was indeed seriously ill, perhaps suffering from a liver disease or felled by a stroke. Western analysts believe that Warsaw Pact Commander Viktor Kulikov, 63, is the most plausible contender to succeed him. One civilian thought to be in the running is Grigori Romanov, 61, the former Leningrad party chief who joined the Central Committee Secretariat last year...
Calling Bailey's transplant unethical, impractical and improper, experts at Harvard and other observers have expressed at Harvard and other observers have expressed anger over Bailey's experiment, charging that the procedure performed to replace Baby Fae's defective original heart simply could not succeed because it ignored the bounds of all current life-saving technology...
...goal: to establish labor early on as the decisive element in the Democrats' bid for the White House. "If we do not do what we propose to do, we shall be reviled as toothless and irrelevant," said AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland at the time. "If we succeed, we shall be condemned for daring to aspire to a share of power in our society...
...what we make of it, and it is crucial that opinion makers--we students included--push this new ideology of pragmatism away from the abyss of Reaganite greed and Yuppie self-interest that looms just beyond the Gary Harts and Bill Bradleys of this w/rld. If we do not succeed, there will be more years of Democratic failure on the national scene...