Word: succeeding
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...Roman Catholic President. "The nomination of a woman," says University of North Carolina Political Scientist Schley Lyons, "will have the same kind of impact. Being a Catholic is no longer a factor. If a woman gets elected, it will make it a lot easier for future female politicians to succeed." The first Catholic nominated for President, however, was Al Smith, in 1928, who lost to Herbert Hoover; it was 32 years before another Catholic was nominated and won the White House...
Turner hopes the election will give him what he lacks most, a mandate. A former Finance Minister, he was chosen on June 16 to succeed Pierre Elliott Trudeau as leader of the Liberal Party; when Trudeau resigned as Prime Minister two weeks later, Turner was sworn in as head of the government. Turner does not, however, have his own seat in Parliament. He also needs an election in order to impose his personal stamp on the Liberals after 16 years of Trudeau's cerebral and autocratic dominance. Turner's main opponent is Brian Mulroney, 45, leader...
...strongest action was the forced retirement of General Jorge H. Arguindegui, who was named Chief of Staff by Alfonsin shortly after the President took office. General Ricardo Pianta, a career officer said to be independent of both the nationalist and conservative wings within the armed forces, was appointed to succeed Arguindegui. For the moment there appeared to be no threat of a military coup. But there was an ominous warning: as the dismissals were being announced, a bomb exploded on the roof of a Buenos Aires TV station that was airing the details of an official report on the abuses...
...manufacturer, will pay no cash for Atari but will pick up $240 million of the company's debts. He will also get rights to buy 1 mil lion Warner shares at $22 each, about equal to last week's price. Warner, which evidently believes that Tramiel can succeed where it failed, will hold onto a 32% stake in Atari...
...younger brothers. Robertson and Garth Wilkinson, were relative failures. Strouse never addresses why or to what extent Alice's ill health and failure were the result of her sex Nor does she explain how Alice differed from women, such as George Eliot, who did manage to succeed...