Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Hansen, fellow co-captain Juan Enriquez and last year's captain Ethan Cruvant decided to tackle the University's bureaucratic maze, they had little hope that their request would succeed. But they made right contacts and wrote a solid proposal--the committee voted overwhelmingly to lift the club's status...
...that China must undoubtedly pursue--lie obstacles that the best rhetoric and the most carefully laid plans may not overcome as quickly as the Chinese want. It's easy enough to study the Japanese, Yugoslavian and even (God forbid) the Taiwanese models but it is another thing altogether to succeed in implementing such policies. And the barricades that Deng and his men must tear down will not fall easily...
...becomes apparent that the barometer for attitudinal change vis-a-vis women in Nicaragua is the effectiveness of propaganda. The Nicaraguan lesson is that perhaps the only way to overcome sexism is by intense political indoctrination and enforced peer pressure. Time will tell if Nicaragua will succeed in changing social attitudes and integrating women into all sectors of Nicaraguan society...
...doesn't succeed in the next generation? "Well," Reyes smiles, "we're certainly better off than we were before. And better off than a lot of North American women...
...like to be judged on the extent to which I do that." How will Huggins conduct himself in helping defuse the disputes that may arise, as they have so often in the past ten years? "If a complaint makes sense, I'm open to hearing it. And if, to succeed, I have to play bureaucratic politics, I will find my way through the maze." As a member of the community, he adds, he will speak out on issues if he feels so compelled...