Word: succeeding
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Student participants in the Foundation indicated throughout the spring semester that with more money and a year's experience they will succeed in soliciting increased undergraduate support...
Argentina's three-man ruling junta was riven over the choice of a new President to succeed Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, the army general who was forced to resign after his troops surrendered to the British two weeks ago. Following five days of bickering, army Major General Cristino Nicolaides, the junta's newest member, ignored navy and air force objections and endorsed retired Major General Reynaldo Benito Antonio Bignone, 54, as the country's seventh military President in six years. Said Bignone, who was scheduled to be sworn in this week: "I am absolutely certain that with...
...they even begin to feel the same things. When E.T., upstairs, accidentally opens an umbrella, Elliott, downstairs, jumps in surprise. The next day E.T., left home alone, discovers the wonders of earthling beer. Elliott, at school, gets drunk. In fact, Elliott, with his teenaged brother and little sister, Gertie, succeed with childlike grace where modern science would probably have failed, keeping an alien alive and helping him get back in touch with his species...
...Harvard College, describes Bond's success in bringing top collections to Harvard. "Often with donors it is his quietmanner, his deep knowledge and his caring for the books themselvesand the library in his charge "Feng adds, "It is also a gentle humor...thatis important in any career to succeed...
...Lebanon, the Israelis bought nothing but breathing space by their assault. They sought to destroy the military core of the P.L.O., and they may succeed. But the Israeli invasion is also likely to embolden the most militant factions of the P.L.O. Instead of feeling quashed, they may now have been provided with a new rationale for terrorism. Nor will an Israeli victory in Lebanon settle the issue of a place for the Palestinians to live. The U.S. position is not greatly enhanced by all this either. It has the perennial task of proving to the Arab states that...