Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AMHERST--As part of a continuing effort to educate the public about the persecution of Black Ethiopian Jews. Hillel at the University of Massachusetts is organizing a used clothing drive to aid those who succeed in immigrating to Israel...
...Dixon's careening style created Crimson spurts of eight or 10 straight points. But more than one Dixon pass fooled the intended receiver as much as the Jiangsu defense. Though Dixon showed the power to spark his team, he will need a little more control if Harvard is to succeed against the more competitive teams ahead on its schedule...
...five. Trumka claimed that the U.M.W. counted his time as a union lawyer toward the requirement. Church would not let go of the point. After his defeat, he said he would convene a U.M.W. commission to report to him before he leaves office on whether Trumka is eligible to succeed...
...subjects: not one of his counselors has sufficient authority to dare to oppose him." Was he describing a Tsar or a Stalin? The power alone is not unfathomable. The country itself seems both to seek subjugation and to struggle against it. It takes a special kind of oppressor to succeed in such a place. Like Brezhnev, he must appear to have sprung from the soil and descended from the sky simultaneously. He must be both the struggle and the oppression...
What moved the Politburo was the thought that the Muslim revolution in Afghanistan could succeed and that, as a result, the Soviet Union would actually be thrown out of Afghanistan. The repercussions of such a blow to our prestige would be unpredictable. The Soviet Union could not run such a risk. The Politburo was determined to show that the Soviet Union would not be pushed about...