Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprising switch of political allegiances that illustrated a desperate search for some semblance of party unity. Last week the moderate old guard of the British Labor Party suddenly turned and joined the aggressive left wing to elevate Michael Foot, 67, to the post of party leader to succeed James Callaghan. Foot handily defeated Denis Healey, 63, the party's right-wing standardbearer, by a vote of 139 to 129 in a poll of Labor Members of Parliament. A militant socialist, Foot is not only an opponent of Britain's terms of membership in the European Community, but also...
...undergraduate degree and corporate work experience--have traditionally been denied to the vast majority of women. Indeed school officials deemed the preparation of the first women admitted so inadequate that the school instituted a policy of deferred matriculation to give them time to gain the skills they needed to succeed in the program...
...fill stereotypes without seeming too shallow: Kate, who ambitiously pursues a career despite the loneliness it forces on her; Samantha, a pragmatist who decides she is not very talented and therefore should sacrifice herself to a husband who is; Holly, a kind person who lacks the drive to succeed; Muffett, who says she is not promiscuous, but hates going to bed alone; Leilah, who realizes she is not brilliant, but only "highly competent," and so moves to Iraq to make competent additions to the field of sociology; and Susie Friend, an over-enthusiastic air-head who loves school teas...
...Neill survived with only token opposition. But Majority Leader Jim Wright, who has spent 25 years in Congress and aspires to succeed the Speaker when O'Neill retires, barely beat back a stern challenge in Fort Worth from conservative Republican Jim Bradshaw, who was strongly backed by some wealthy oilmen. But the third man in the Democratic hierarchy, Whip John Brademas, 53, of Indiana, lost his bid for a twelfth term to Businessman John Hiler. The attractive, young (27), conservative Hiler convinced the voters of his district, which includes South Bend, that Brademas, because of his leadership position...
...speed and facility with which the hostages succeed in re-entering normal life will depend in large part on the tolerance and understanding they receive from their families and from the American public. The unthinking could all too easily confront them with two opposed dangers: either a hostile reaction to possible pro-Iranian utterances or excessive public adulation. Warns Psychology Professor Murray S. Miron of Syracuse University: "The more we lionize the returning hostages, the more inconsistent their attitude could be about themselves." Hubbard agrees that two much notoriety could aggravate their psychological problems. "These folks need privacy and gentleness...