Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...responses were restrained, in keeping with British tradition, Reagan drew rumbles of "hear, hear" and a burst of applause by asserting that in the Falkland Islands British soldiers are fighting not "for lumps of rock and earth" but for the principle that armed aggression must not be allowed to succeed...
...priorities of U.S. policymakers. But in his historic address to Britain's Houses of Parliament last week, President Reagan won warm applause for his declaration that British soldiers in the Falklands were "fighting for a cause, for the belief that armed aggression must not be allowed to succeed and that people must participate in the decisions of government under the rule of law." Privately, both the President and Secretary of State Alexander Haig continued to worry over Thatcher's rejection of a negotiated solution that would, by ultimately involving Argentina in the future of the Falklands, help repair...
...Achievement, actually can illuminate a student's basic abilities. Many have charged that high scorers on any such test are likely to be well-off and to have attended better high schools. Whitla, however, dismisses the notion that there exist "bright and noble savages"--students who could succeed here academically in spite of preparation so poor that they could not do well on Achievements...
...Andropov becomes a favorite to succeed Brezhnev...
...discuss a plan to increase agricultural production. But shortly after the start, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, 75, in his role as General Secretary of the Communist Party, made an announcement that added a new element to the most popular pastime in Moscow: speculating about who will eventually succeed the ailing leader...