Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...full-time ranchers in sheep and cattle who are opposed to the use of toxicants [Aug. 10] in the control of predators. We have four Komondor guard dogs on the payroll, and they keep our livestock safe. If the zealots succeed in polluting the range with the chemical Compound 1080, our dogs will be the first victims, long before the wily coyote...
From the beginning, Gaddafi's aspirations were not limited to Libya. Hoping to succeed Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser as the charismatic leader of the Arab world, Gaddafi tried to engineer mergers first with Egypt, then the Sudan, Tunisia and finally Syria. He bankrolled Palestinian commando groups, including the extremists of Black September, and at one time made his country a refuge for international air hijackers. By pouring petrodollars into poor sub-Saharan Africa, he persuaded a number of African nations to sever their ties to Israel. At the same time, he proffered arms and money to "liberation...
Sometimes ads can succeed beyond a lawyer's wildest dreams. Madison, Wis., Attorney Ken Hur, founder of a low-cost legal clinic, pushed its services with a variety of novel pitches that he says made him "the advertisingest lawyer in America." A hearse, for example, began to rumble along local streets with a printed message promoting $15 wills. Before long, Hur left the clinic and boosted his own hourly charge to $100. He explains, "I had to raise my rates to drive away business...
...somber Continental board of directors last week named George A. Warde, 59, the former president, to succeed Feldman as chief executive officer. Meanwhile, Texas International is awaiting final White House approval of its takeover bid, which appears likely. Lorenzo intends to keep Continental a separate airline and a subsidiary of the parent organization, Texas Air Corporation. Continental employees last week were still trying to search for ways to block Texas International, but their chances looked very slim...
...result of these brutal tactics, all potential opposition voices to President Lucas García have been silenced, and political pluralism is dead. Though García cannot legally succeed himself in next March's presidential election, there is little doubt that a like-minded rightist, such as General Aníbal Guevara Rodríguez, the Defense Minister, will move into the palace in Guatemala City...