Word: succeeding
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California is first with a lot," says a media maven for San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson. Right now, the state is first with a lot of candidates to succeed Republican Senator S.I. Hayakawa, 75, who is not seeking reelection. When voters go to the polls next Tuesday to choose party nominees for both the Senate and the Governor's mansion, as many as 13 names will be on the G.O.P. primary ballot as candidates for the Senate, and seven of them, including Wilson, are running seriously...
...Iowa's Republican Party: "Now there is a race, and there wasn't before." State Attorney General Tom Miller, a Democrat, agrees: "There is no Republican now who could win the kind of victory that would sweep other people in with him." The leading Republican candidate to succeed Ray is Lieutenant Governor Terry Brans tad, 35, a well-financed conservative. His probable opponent: former U.S. Attorney Roxanne Conlin, 37, who apparently holds a commanding lead over her two opponents in next month's Democratic primary. A poll released last week by the Des Moines Register and Tribune...
...resident political heavyweight, would challenge Democrat Howard Metzenbaum for the Senate this fall. With Ohio's budget deficit approaching $1.5 billion and its 12.4% jobless rate running eighth highest in the nation, Rhodes decided to step aside altogether. The Democrats are favored to win the race to succeed him. The front runner: onetime Lieutenant Governor and former Peace Corps Director Richard Celeste...
...Extra-Terrestrial, which he devised and directed, tells of a creature from outer space who is mistakenly abandoned on earth and befriended by three school-age children. "Poltergeist is a scream," Spielberg says. "E.T. is a whisper." The first film means to thrill, the second to enthrall. Both succeed beyond anyone's expectations, perhaps even those of their prodigious creator. They re-establish the movie screen as a magic lantern, where science plays tricks on the eye as an artist enters the heart and nervous system with images that bemuse and beguile...
...another." Underscoring that point, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sounded far from hopeful as she told a Conservative Party audience in Perth, Scotland, that a negotiated settlement of the Falklands dispute "may prove unattainable." Said she with passion: "I hope with all my heart that the negotiations will succeed. I do not want to see one more life lost in the South Atlantic-whether Argentine or British-if it can be avoided." But she warned that if the diplomatic process broke down, "we should have to turn to the only course left open to us"-invasion of the islands...