Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next public appearance. That happened to be a totally incongruous event, a welcoming address to 200 women leaders of Christian evangelical groups visiting Washington. After the usual innocuous pleasantries, the President told the churchwomen that he had reviewed the qualifications of "more than two dozen fine potential nominees" to succeed James G. Watt as Secretary of the Interior and settled on a man whose name was not on that list: National Security Adviser William Clark...
...coalition had not been easy to forge. Although the Herut Party had nominated Shamir to succeed Begin as its leader on Sept. 2, it took Shamir nearly three weeks of wrangling to win the support of the small parties whose backing had been essential to Begin. As the haggling went on, the economic crisis deepened. The Bank of Israel announced that the country's foreign debt had increased by $550 million, to $21.5 billion, in the first six months of 1983 and that foreign currency reserves had dropped for the third straight month to a mere $230 million...
...Chinese people have followed an austere life-style for so long that their desire for such items is hardly a surprise. Yet if Deng Xiaoping is to succeed in his Four Modernizations, he may have to suppress consumerism. The task of industrial progress will require that China's limited exchange be spent wisely. Rubik's Cubes, and similar products, may be the wrench in the cogs of China's revitalization...
...progress came about because there was nowhere to go but up. But much of the improvement in inner-city schools is due to the energy and dedication of strong leaders who are imposing standards of discipline as well as excellence. Their strategy: make the students believe they can succeed...
...Extra-Terrestrial, which he devised and directed, tells of a creature from outer space who is mistakenly abandoned on earth and befriended by three school-age children. "Poltergeist is a scream," Spielberg says. "E. T. is a whisper." The first film means to thrill, the second to enthrall. Both succeed beyond anyone's expectations, perhaps even those of their prodigious creator...