Word: succeeding
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...Black underclass, a group that has been deprived of hope and told to believe that it cannot succeed, no matter how hard it tries, Fallows urges the implementation of conservative solutions like workfare and education vouchers. As for those inner-city schools that repeatedly fail to install confidence or discipline in students, Fallows seems to put out a call for Joe Clark, the New Jersey principal who is known for walking around while carrying a baseball bat and a bullhorn...
Foley is thinking along similar lines. Several proposals for limiting honorariums (as lucrative speaking fees paid by special-interest groups are euphemistically labeled) are being considered by a bipartisan House panel. The plan considered most likely to succeed would gradually phase out speaking fees as House and Senate salaries increased from their present level of $89,500. Thus a 7% pay raise would be accompanied by a 7% lowering in the earnings allowed from speeches, which at present are 30% of salary for a House member and 40% for a Senator...
...Crimson reports that the Radcliffe presidency has been offered to Yale University Professor Judith Rodin. Should Rodin accept, she would succeed outgoing Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner, who is scheduled to step down from her post on July...
...revealed this week that Psychology Department Chair Brendan A. Maher, will succeed Sally Falk Moore as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Maher's most pressing problem, observers say, will be to address the school's financial difficulties...
Dean James Vorenberg '49 and Professor of Law Robert C. Clark, who will succeed Vorenberg in July, have applauded the students' methods of protest and say they support the cause...