Word: succeeding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...week Reagan sounded still more conciliatory, telling a group of editors, "We must join together to bring down deficits, bring down interest rates and revive the economy." The talks exploring a compromise were reaching "a climactic stage," he said, adding: "I want to express my strong hope that they succeed...
Baker was elected to the Senate in 1966, on his second try, becoming the first Republican to represent Tennessee in that chamber since 1913. He had yet to learn the value of patience: during his first term, he made a somewhat impertinent bid to succeed his late father-in-law as minority leader. He was soundly defeated by Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, who beat Baker again two years later. When Scott retired in 1977, Baker was hesitant to make a third attempt. But he put his name forward at the last minute and edged out Robert Griffin of Michigan...
WHEN PRESIDENT Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Abe Fortas in mid-1968 to succeed Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the United States, he had no idea of the controversy he would stir up. But at Fortas confirmation hearings, senators charged that Fortas--a presidential adviser who LBJ had appointed an Associate Justice in 1965--had continued to council Johnson on political matters while sitting on the Court. With his nomination hopelessly stalled in the Senate Fortas withdrew his name from consideration in early October. Within a year, he had resigned from the Court entirely, pressured out by those who accused...
...time: William Shawn, the reclusive, brilliant, sometimes quirky but certainly benevolent dictator for the past 30 years at The New Yorker. Shawn is not only Schell's boss but his mentor as well. Insiders at the magazine believe that Shawn, 74, hopes that Schell, 38, will eventually succeed him-an idea that has caused some resistance among the staff, partly because Schell got a reputation as an overly emotional, "radic-lib" opponent of the Viet Nam War. Shawn, however, has continued to support him and was the godfather for The Fate of the Earth. Shawn even provided, anonymously, promotional...
...never able to distinguish someone like me from a slightly educated Mexican American who lived in a barrio. Worse, affirmative action made me the beneficiary of his condition." Today, he believes, colleges do nonwhite students a disservice by recruiting them without due regard for their preparation or chances to succeed. "The revolutionary demand," Rodriguez writes, would be for "a reform of primary and secondary schools...