Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like the vast majority of sufferers, Susan feels an intense pressure to be thin, smart, career-oriented and successful, and often this pressure has led her to turn to food for comfort. "Being at Harvard just makes the problem worse because everyone is out to succeed here, and people move so fast that they often don't take the time to be friendly or personable. When you feel like the university and the people are impersonal and all there is to do is study and sit around inside, then it is extremely easy to overeat," she says...
...knew the nuances of the elusive game as well as anyone on the big tour. Yet Bogart Jackson was 25 years old and still scrambling to make it, hanging around courses at dawn to finish his round before the stars started theirs. This December, he told himself, he would succeed. And by the time he was 30, he vowed, he would have collected $1 million in winnings. And then he could rest...
Kreisler's achievement of learning the craft of composition might be commendable if his method were not Machiavellian--he accomplished his ends by stealing and lying (it was the only way for a violinist to succeed in a field so competitive and demanding.) He filched the style and flavor of classical composers and used them in his own works. Fortunately, he admitted his crimes--for musicologists' sakes--in pieces like "Variations on a Theme of Corelli in the Style of Giuseppe Tartini." But he sometimes tried to fool other composers by publishing old-style pieces under the names of 18th...
...students should protest any move by the law faculty to coerce them into jettisoning attempts to include diversity in selecting members. And if faculty members should succeed in forcing students to scrap the use of race as a consideration, students should boycott competing for the review altogether...
...editorial in Pravda last Friday was as unsubtle as it was intrusive. It noted that Finland (pop. 4.8 million) must choose a new President in January to succeed Urho Kekkonen, 81, who stepped down from the office last month after 25 years, for reasons of ill health. Then the Soviet Communist Party's official newspaper baldly proclaimed its own favorite candidate for Kekkonen's job: Ahti Karjalainen, 58, acting president of the Bank of Finland, a member of Kekkonen's Center Party and a onetime protege of the ex-President...