Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...position in the receiving line. Only Premier Nikolai Tikhonov, whose presence was required by protocol, stood closer to the ailing Soviet leader. The white-maned Chernenko's commanding position set off speculation that he had won a round or two in the behind-the-scenes struggle to succeed the 75-year-old Brezhnev. At the same time, there were other indications last week in the byzantine political world of Moscow suggesting that Chernenko, and perhaps even his boss Brezhnev, were the targets of veiled challenges from restless colleagues...
...costs and overly protective practices into line with those of other European countries. Surprisingly, the nation's aggressive unions reacted with restraint. "Devaluation is a fact," said Georges Debunne, secretary-general of the Socialist-led Federation Generate du Travail de Belgique. "We must do everything to make it succeed...
...middle course. Once a great nation commits itself, it must prevail. It will acquire no kudos for translating its inner doubts into hesitation. However ambivalently it has arrived at the point of decision, it must pursue the course on which it is embarked with a determination to succeed. Otherwise, it adds a reputation for incompetence to whatever controversy it is bound to incur on the merits of its decision...
Agnew's acid comment dramatized the ambivalent relationship that almost inevitably grows up between the only two nationally elected officials of our Government. Nixon never considered Agnew up to succeeding him. He occasionally said, only partly facetiously, that Agnew was his insurance policy against assassination. My impression that evening was that Agnew was not exactly heartbroken that his tormentors on the White House staff might be taken down a peg. Through the initial period of Watergate, Agnew remained conspicuously aloof. And when his own purgatory started, the White House, including Nixon, reciprocated by dissociating from him. Agnew...
Harvard did not succeed in moving from fifth to fourth as Coach Vicky Hays had hoped, although four Crimson divers placed among the top 14 in the three-meter event...