Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...free enterprise system in the United States" because the presence of racism destroys it, he said. Mitchell, in his keynote speech, challenged his audience to "be so damn good that someone begs you to come with them," adding. "There may be no other way for you to succeed...
Cobb, who has done studies of and talked to representatives from about 75 of the top 150 Fortune 500 corporations, also told the audience that Blacks find it difficult to succeed because of the lack of other Blacks in high managerial positions...
...well as political momentum away from the liberals (a word now about as popular as "child molester" with politicians). What's good for General Motors has become once again good for everyone. Tax abatements to attract business are a national fad, even though Kuttner says they do not succeed in attracting business, and even if they did, would not generate enough tax revenue to make up for their cost. Furthermore, he attacks the Right's insistence that the government causes all inflation. He notes that Germans, living in their elegantly humming capitalist machine, pay 44 per cent of their income...
Americans rejoiced in the Inauguration Day liberation of the 52 hostages from the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Nonetheless, Iran threatens to succeed Viet Nam as a symbol of American frustration and impotence. American diplomatic support and military backing could not prevent the fall of the Shah, who for decades seemed the paragon of a U.S. friend overseas. Then came the humiliation of the embassy seizure, the burning of American flags, the ritual chanting of "Death to the great satan!" by mullah-led mobs. Recent years have spawned an array offerees seemingly inimical to American interests, ranging from the extortionist pricing...
...discover the vast creativity available in its possibilities. America must start experimenting again in its institutions, in its science, in its business. "Modern consciousness," in Sociologist Peter Berger's formula, "entails a movement from fate to choice." Armed with the knowledge that they are not fated to succeed, Americans can take up the complicated burden of choosing to succeed, of making their way creatively across the expanses of their possibilities. That venture could be as liberating to the national spirit as the first forays west across the mountains...