Word: succeeding
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Intel President Andrew Grove predicts that his and other semiconductor firms can defeat the Japanese challenge. Says he: "Our industry is in a critical stage of development, with our market under attack. We are now fighting a vicious assault; but so far as I am concerned, we will succeed...
...Dowling's appointment as associate dean. Williams said has made him "very optimistic" about the future of the two departments. The awareness and concern displayed in trying to avoid potential problems has convinced Williams and others that the venture will succeed...
Especially scary about that proposal is its implicit attack on another target: the Supreme Court. Last week's legislation--and a host of other bills pending before Congress many sponsored by Sen. Jesse Helms (R.N.C.)--would dramatically curtail the Court in dealing with social issues. If those efforts succeed, the forces of the New Right would be given free reign to roll back many of the civil liberties gains of the last 20 years, among them Court decisions legalizing abortion, limiting school prayer and setting forth stringent requirements for the application of the death penalty...
Brezhnev's advanced age and his less than robust demeanor at the nationally televised funeral underline new anxieties about who will succeed him in the key post of Communist Party chief. Had he outlived Brezhnev, Suslov was expected to use his formidable authority as senior Politburo member to ensure an orderly transfer of power. The leading contenders for Brezhnev's job now include Politburo Stalwarts Andrei Kirilenko, 75, and Konstantin Chernenko, 70. According to Yale University Kremlinologist Wolfgang Leonhard, no current Soviet leader except Brezhnev comes "anywhere near Suslov in influence, stature, administrative skill and statesmanship...
...Koivisto, 58, the son of a carpenter and the holder of a Ph.D. in sociology, last week won 50.1% of the vote, enough to be assured of becoming his country's next President when Finland's 301-member electoral college meets this week. Then Koivisto will officially succeed Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, 81, who resigned in October because of crippling arteriosclerosis after leading Finland for a quarter-century...