Word: succeeding
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...argues that the program will save the Government money and give people more control over their choice of dwellings. Critics charge, however, that the supply of private, low-cost housing is too small, and the opportunities for landlord price gouging and client abuse too great, for the system to succeed. The fiscal squeeze has spurred creative thinking on the local level. San Francisco has arranged for a local commercial developer to renovate, rent and manage 82 units in the Hunter's Point housing project. The developer sets the rents, with housing authority approval, but the apartments must...
...Paul E. Tsongas' announcement last month that he would not seek re-election has caused a scramble among prominent Massachusetts Democrats hoping to succeed him. Today's caucuses are the first political test for those who want to assume his Senate seat. To get a spot on the primary ballot, a candidate must be supported by 15 percent of the convention delegates...
Putnam said when he announced his retirement, effective this June, that "everything's running amoothly now, and I'd like to see Walter Cabot succeed...
...having in creating new companies. He argued that better prospects for profit were necessary to create new investments in Europe. Above all, Giersch said, Europe needs to create incentives so that entrepreneurs can succeed in creating new firms and new jobs. Brittan called for a standstill on real-pay increases so that Europe can catch up competitively. Such a measure, he said, "would break the back of the unemployment problem." Chevalier confessed that one mistake to avoid repeating was France's attempt to establish an overall government-led industrial policy. This, he said, has mainly produced unnecessary official spending...
Pope John Paul II this week announced Law will succeed the late Cardinal Humberto Medeiros, who suffered heart failure last September. Law is the "first graduate of Harvard College that has become an archbishop," said Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals...