Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...broken home, or from a family with alcoholism, or with a criminal record. Let's see Adler attempt the same discussion with a girl who has been sexually abused by her stepfather, or a boy so stoned he is barely able to pronounce his name. If he can succeed with these youths, then I will be impressed...
There is reason to doubt that such a boycott could succeed. But the would-be censors appear to be winning the war before the battle begins. Already the networks are sounding defensive, warning that if sex is successfully restrained, censorship of news and opinion will follow. Civil libertarians are readying a $2 million countercampaign in support of diversity, called People for the American Way and featuring TV public-service ads produced by Norman Lear, creator of All in the Family. (Moral Majority has announced that Falwell will demand reply time whenever a Lear ad appears.) Most important, advertisers are uneasy...
...with their half-finished sentences and frustrated glances, they succeed parodying the struggle for personal fulfillment after the fall from innocence. Of the other actors, only Gene Hackman merits particular mention for his subdued portrayal of indefatigable Lex Luthor, the man who for his part in the subjugation of the world "only wants a little beachfront property--the continent of Australia...
...surtaxes on expense accounts, four-star hotels, private boats and incomes over $65,000. Says one private banker, with considerable hyperbole: "My family and I are going to be virgins sacrificed on the altar of a Socialist god!" Says an embittered business leader: "The Socialist leveler tide just may succeed where 200 years of recurring French puritanism has failed: to make France colorless and downright boring." As for the shorter workday and higher minimum wage, businessmen insist that less work for more pay will simply make French exports uncompetitive, leading to lower growth and higher unemployment...
...court's ruling gave no indication of whether the guards' suit, or others like it, would succeed. Nor did it suggest any new standard to which employers might be held. "It just opens the door," said Norman Chachkin of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. "But a decision going the other way would have shut the door with a pretty big clang...