Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is exactly the same image that had been cultivated by George Shultz up until his appointment to succeed Alexander M. Haig as Secretary of State Shultz was the giant of domestic policy in the Nixon Administration--"a careful listener, a former academic who has become, in the estimate of his friends in government and business, a master manager with an uncanny knack for getting the best of people," said Newsweek. His resume was as impressive if not more so than Weinbergers': Secretary of Labor, head of the Office of Management Budget, and Secretary of the Treasury, where he negotiated...
...around and it's a new life...it's like waking up in the middle of a dream...I think I just woke up." Black wakes us up with Zee. Her idiosyncracies and eccentricity make her an endearing character. And while the material Black works with may not always succeed, we always feel that she has completely delved into Zee's foibles and problems...
...while Silvera and his three-man research team know they are close to their goal, they are not sure what will happen if they succeed...
...people are for, and be against something a lot of people are against. But, unfortunately, there's a third requirement: one need explain in clear and inspiring terms just where we should go from here. And it is on this count that Walter Mondale fails and Gary Hart must succeed if he is to continue to establish himself as the alternative to Mondale...
...only does Anderson--like the Byrne -Eno and the Eno-Hassell efforts-succeed in bridging Eastern (Third World) music and Western music, but she also manages to bridge the classical/ambsent and rock influences together. There has always been a kind of dichotomy in approaches to this "Fourth World" music; the Talking Heads' Remain in Light despite its intricate synthesiser treatments, was essentially a rock album, while Hassell/Eno's "Fourth World" albums were basically ambient music. Laurie Anderson's Mister heartbreak (like her Big Science) confounds these categories. Although the music is very avantgarde, it refuses to fade away into...