Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...utilized in the search for solutions to some of the vexing problems of our age," especially, one hopes, the vexing problem of admissions and hiring of Black students and faculty on this campus. We need to change that conditional "could" to a definite "will" if affirmative action is to succeed. The proposal's vagueness provides space for that effort--if Black students claim their territorial rights in the foundation itself...
While Vance concentrated on a few major concerns-the SALT negotiations, the Camp David accords-Christopher ran the rest of the State Department. Says Vance: "He really was in every sense an alter ego to me." Christopher intended to resign last April if he was not named to succeed Vance. In the end, however, Carter and the new Secretary, Edmund Muskie, persuaded him to stay on. For the past eight months, some observers assert, Christopher has been the Secretary in all but name, while Muskie has concerned himself chiefly with the public side...
...ablest men I have ever met. He's diplomatic. He's skillful. He's fair." Carter paid a similar compliment last week in awarding Christopher the Medal of Freedom: "He is indeed outstanding." Privately, Carter added that he regrets not having named Christopher to succeed Griffin Bell as Attorney General...
Various government agencies have taken preparatory steps to intervene militarily in El Salvador. Policy makers appear to have concluded that such a move could succeed in preventing the collapse of the current regime...
...past: the new men that have arisen to seize it are grubby, narrow, without vision, unlike the heroic pioneer generation with its integrity, honor, heroism. William Faulkner turned in a similar performance in [several] of his novels, whose point was often that in contemporary life only the swinish succeed, that the day of the men of character is past...