Word: succeeding
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...rest of the week saw the workers, members of Local 877 of the Internation Union of Operating Engineers, continually picket the plant and succeed in blocking all but one oil shipment...
...well. In the rush to increase defense spending and balance the budget, money for food stamps, for housing assistance, and for tuition loans will slide off the back of the Laffer curve into oblivion. More disturbing still is the Reagan pledge to trim government regulation drastically; should he succeed, it will mean the sacrifice of 40 years of progress, a return to the days when the nation's Hooker Chemicals searched for Love Canals, a return to the era when job safety was regarded as a socialistic measure interfering with productivity...
During the spring, however, Martin Anderson, a shrewd economist in Reagan's inner circle, began putting together an impressive array of experts to draft a more credible program. They could not talk Reagan into stretching out the tax cuts, but they did succeed in changing the whole rationale for them. Now it is admitted that the rate reductions themselves will not necessarily stimulate enough new revenues to offset the loss. Instead, a strict curb on new spending, plus the natural growth of the economy, would provide enough margin to permit the tax measure. Reagan accepted this substantial alteration without...
...have a lot of values in common," says Deaver of Reagan. "He knows, like my wife knows, that I have nothing else in mind. I want him to succeed...
Indeed, when Lynda and Melvin get back together, it is her terpsichorean gift that briefly rescues him from having to succeed in his ingenuous but feckless quest for the "Milkman of the Month" prize at the dairy where he takes a job. She picks up money to pay the bills by tap dancing off with the top prize on Easy Street, a parody of one of those game shows that are themselves a parody of the American dream. But she leaves Melvin again, this time for good, when he invests some of her winnings in a huge cabin cruiser; this...