Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CRITERIA THEMSELVES, although they succeed in producing a high quality faculty, could become a major problem in the near future. Most departments operate now on the assumption that if they have a position available, they will be able to find a renowned scholar to fill it. That may become harder to do, however, as universities intensify their competition for top scholars; Harvard's allure may dimish in comparison with larger salaries, lighter teaching loads, and other tidbits competing universities might dangle before a sought-after professor...
...replies quickly, eagerly: "Unbelievable. No doubt in my mind." So does he want to go big time? "I never close my eyes to anything. But I never look beyond where I am at the moment." He has refused to comment on the possibility that he might be asked to succeed Dan Devine at Notre Dame...
...that meant little to the gray-clad fans who expected victory. To tall to "preppie" Harvard had implications of disgrace for the disciplined, ordered way of lite into which emotion enters only when you have to reach back for that little extra in order to succeed. Saturday, Army failed, despite the tightly orchestrated public-relations performance...
...fact, the National Republican Congressional Committee this year is cold-bloodedly working hard to unseat nearly all of the House Democratic leaders. The break with tradition was engineered by the committee's chairman, Michigan Congressman Guy Vander Jagt, who is unopposed for re-election and hopes to succeed Rhodes as G.O.P. floor leader...
...influx of white heroin is perverse testimony to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's success in persuading Turkey and Mexico to crack down on their illicit poppy growers. Succeed it has, and so the drug suppliers have turned to the Golden Crescent of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, where government control is too weak to keep the poppy fields from blooming. U.S. narcotics officials estimate that the Golden Crescent is producing about 1,600 tons of opium a year, nine times the output of the rest of the world. Says DEA Chief Peter Bensinger: "It dwarfs anything we have known...