Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expect when you put 4000 overachieving high-school presidents in the same place: competition and pressure." There is little privacy at the Point; vacations are limited to three weeks around Christmas and barely six weeks during the summer. When one is on post, the pressure to perform, compete and succeed is intense. "There is no substitute for victory," reads an inscription at the base of the statue of MacArthur which stands in front of the barracks...
...subcommittees probably will succeed in coming up with new course ideas because most of their members recognize the Core's course development problems. The obstacle will be finding professors willing to teach in the Core. The burden of adding courses to the Core, therefore, also falls on those Faculty members who refuse to venture out of their departments. To provide students the widest range of choices in the Core, the subcommittees have to start raiding those departmental refuges. But at the same time professors must be more receptive when the subcommittees come knocking at their doors...
...chose Sacks to succeed him as Law School dean when he became president in 1971, said Friday he has written to the Law School faculty, students and 200 to 300 alumni, asking for their views of the school's needs and "for the names of any candidates they might have...
...jobs would be opening up for the first time in six years. The giant automaker last week cut short the executive-suite guessing game. It announced that Roger Bonham Smith, 55, will replace Murphy as chairman of the board and chief executive officer; Francis James McDonald, 58, will succeed Estes as the company's operating boss. The two men were long regarded as the leading candidates...
...even in the running. Many viewers think he should have been. When he sat in for Cronkite a few weeks ago, Kuralt's warmth and humor set off an avalanche of mail to the CBS newsroom. "Mostly they told us we had picked the wrong man to succeed Walter," said one top CBS News producer...