Word: succeeding
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Professors in the social sciences, where outside consulting work may be less frequent and is almost always less lucrative, tend to argue that the council's new guidelines will succeed. Only at the margin, they say, will the new codes dissuade professors from undertaking new outside responsibilities--probably exactly the ones the guidelines aim at curbing. But in the hard sciences, as Watson's remarks at last week's dedication suggested, the outlook is less sanguine, perhaps because the financial temptations for faculty members there are so great...
...week's end, though, worries about Egypt's stability had been somewhat allayed, as the government in Cairo moved to fill the void. Egypt's parliament endorsed Vice President Hosni Mubarak to succeed Sadat, and the nation will probably affirm that choice in a referendum next week...
...movement began to succeed in the early seventies, when the party scored a political victory in Crystal City, Texas. "I was the only one who could write worth a goddam, so I did fundraising," Velasquez recalls of his role in the campaign...
...officials, meanwhile, indicated that aid from the U.S. may also be forthcoming. Assistant Secretary of State Enders told TIME Mexico Bureau Chief James Willwerth in Belize City last week that it is in American interests to have "this independent democratic government succeed." Enders added that the U.S. had already had talks with the Guatemalan government about giving up any idea of taking away the freedom that the citizens of Belize were celebrating so warmly...
Nicholas (reading a newspaper clip): The Crummies troupe is about to cross the Atlantic on a histrionic expedition, and Crummies is quite certain to succeed...