Word: succeeding
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...nation that worries itself sick over its declining productivity. Americans do succeed in producing one thing more successfully than any other country on Earth--garbage. Lifestyles of luxury, fast food, and obsolescence have turned our society into a waste-vomitting machine. The average American produces about five pounds of garbage per day. New York City, perhaps the world's trashiest city, produces more refuse than London and Tokyo combined...
...during World War II, including I Married a Witch (1942) and It Happened Tomorrow (1943), before returning to France to direct films, write novels and in 1973 produce Orphée et Eurydice at the Paris Opéra. Clair once said: "A girl and a gun always succeed. But the great masters D.W. Griffith and Charlie Chaplin never needed that combination. I never did either...
Donald Regan is a bottom-line man. Individual reputations mean nothing in a failure. "We've come this far now," says Regan. "Ronald Reagan has his chance. Were he not to succeed in his goal, I'm afraid that an awful lot of America's future would be lost along with...
Lange is more modest, as befits an actress on whose erotic and dramatic appeal The Postman will succeed or fail at the box office. "That kind of ferocity can happen to any woman or man," she says. "When it happens, the emotions are magnified a hundred times. The erotic is basic to life, and it's basic to the film's story. If people see it that way, I'll be very pleased...
...with these failings of the Student Assembly in mind that we view the Dowling report on student governance released earlier this month. And it is this example that makes us skeptical that a student government reconstituted along the lines suggested by the committee will ever succeed. The most striking similarity between the assembly and the Dowling proposal is that again students are placed in merely an advisory role--all their efforts can be ignored or vetoed by the Faculty and the administration...