Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Madrid still must run for the job, but it is a foregone conclusion that he will succeed; the P.R.I, has held a monopoly on political power in Mexico for 52 years. The real surprise was the stepped-up scheduling for Lopez Portillo's announcement, which may mean that the patrician author-statesman has come to realize that he is in deep political trouble. Despite a booming economy and 72 billion bbl. of proven oil reserves, Mexico has been spending money so fast that the country faces a balance of payments deficit of as much as $.10 billion this year...
This situation proves that the government's policy of trying to build up a core of urban Blacks as a buffer against Black revolution cannot succeed. Even the most privileged Black can never forget that he is a third-class citizen. Every Black must live in one of the Blacks-only areas, all of which are miserable. Every Black must carry at all times a dark blue pass book. Unless this little booklet bears a stamp authorizing the holder to remain in white South Africa, he or she faces imprisonment or deportation to one of the so-called homelands, regions...
...succeed, it will not be by relying upon the old slogans or familiar attitudes of the past," Kennedy told an enthusiastic audience of about 350 people...
Says he: "The Reagan Administration's approach will boomerang. The more they succeed, the more they assure their ultimate failure." -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Hays Gorey/Washington, with other U.S. bureaus
...here teaching about it all," he said with a smile, adding that Mexican Americans, like other minorities, will succeed only through involvement in politics...