Word: succeeding
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CALIFORNIA. From the start, one key issue dominated the race to succeed retiring Republican Senator S.I. Hayakawa: the personality and programs of Governor Jerry Brown. After eight fractious years in Sacramento and enough spacey ideas to earn him the nickname "Governor Moonbeam," Brown last June started out in the polls 22 points behind his Republican opponent, Mayor Pete Wilson of San Diego...
...WHOLE, Keeping Faith is an honest account of the Carter Presidency. If Carter gives short shrift to some of his weak points, he also shoulders some blame for America's disarray during his Presidency. And he does succeed in reminding us that his administration was not entirely devoid of accomplishments. In addition to Camp David, the former president deserves credit for tangible changes in U.S. affairs, at home and abroad; the Panama Canal Treaty, normalization of relations with China, the energy windfall profits tax, and civil service reform are only the most striking...
Carter, to his credit, aimed high. For all his political failures, he did succeed in reinforcing in the American psyche a sense of idealism that may otherwise have been lost. Thanks to his efforts, world-wide human rights are harder to forget about nowadays. In a time when America is being led astray by a politically say atavism, Keeping Faith serves as a reminder that, just may be, his predecessor the bumbling idealist wasn't to bad after...
Speculation was heavy that the motivation for much of last week's legislative action was, and will be in the next few weeks, the imminent change of leadership in the State House. The more scrupulous Michael S. Dukakis will succeed Gov. Edward J. King in January. King's four years in office have been characterized by political--and sometimes illegal--horsetrading, not by principled progress on important problems. It is only appropriate, then, though sad, that he should go out in this style...
...more often, many critics claim, the lines offer the veritable propaganda of capitalism and that great American faith if you try hard enough, you will succeed. "In trying times try harder," one tag beckons. "A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor," another states...