Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...working hard is nothing new for Lee. The son of two Asian immigrants--his father is Malaysian, and his mother is Chinese--Lee was expected to work hard and succeed in high school. Lee describes his parents' control of him as "a combination of a lot of caring and a lot of strictness...
LAST week, Radcliffe officially revealed its choice of Linda S. Wilson, a University of Michigan administrator, to succeed Matina S. Horner as Radcliffe's seventh president. The selection of Wilson for the post raises questions about both the future of the institution and its role in undergraduate life. The new president's primary challenge will be to distinguish herself from her predecessor while continuing Radcliffe's scholarly programs and further defining its relationship to undergraduate women. Although the choice of Wilson gives some indication of Radcliffe's agenda for the future, it is as yet too soon to judge...
...some degree, yes. We never were nearly so successful. We were trying to stop a policy and didn't succeed. We raised consciousness, but we didn't stop the war. We stopped its further escalation. We stopped the further American commitment. Nor did we change sufficient minds and hearts in America so that operations similar to that in Viet Nam could not take place in Central America. These Chinese students seem ready to change very fundamental policies in China. It's something -- I can't get over...
...impossible to succeed enough to satisfy this woman," writes Baker, who sounds as if he does not believe how far he has come. To hear Baker tell of his rise from newspaper delivery boy to the Baltimore Sun's man about London and Washington, one would think he still regards himself as an ink- stained wretch...
...reporters then turned their questioning to Goldman's thoughts on who would succeed Gorbachev and to his opinion of President Bush's foreign policy...