Word: succeeding
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...agreed that all three categories should be regarded only in context and as being of equal value. Security matters, taken on their own, offer too little chance of success. The same applies to an isolated policy concerning the free movement of people. Cooperation is of paramount importance. If we succeed in extending, step by step, cooperation in the fields of science, food, ecology, transportation, economics, energy and development policy, then arms control and even free movement of people will ultimately come into the range of what is possible. However, if we refuse to cooperate with the Soviets in these fields...
...concerns is that Lambsdorff's resignation would encourage hard-line Conservative Franz Josef Strauss, the maverick leader of the Christian Democrats' Bavarian-based sister party, to make a play for the Economics Minister's portfolio. Kohl will resist such a move. But if Strauss were to succeed, Bonn's centrist policies could begin to slant to the right...
...assistant. The young man had been interested since childhood in theatrical costume and set design and was delighted to be apprenticed to Dior. Four years later, when Dior died suddenly of a heart attack, Saint Laurent was chosen by Textile Magnate Marcel Boussac, who owned the couture house, to succeed him. In 1958 he produced a brilliant debut collection that introduced an A-line dress called the trapeze. It was an instantaneous success. The French, who invented the modern concept of a couturier, celebrated in the street. The boy wonder, tall, handsome and painfully shy, was thrust...
...numbers too absurd to play with a straight face, the cast eventually loosens up--only to find that the way to succeed in musicals is not really trying. Once unbraided, the cast's plentiful talent (not to mention Porter's) comes over loud and clear. With this week's rehearsals and three performances under their belt, the cast may hit its stride earlier on in this weekend's performances...
Last week Putnam said Harvard Management Company President Walter M. Cabot '55 is the leading candidate to succeed him although Cabot says he has not been approached by University officials...