Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inevitably get his kin as well. Into the grave splendor of his new job the President's relatives intrude a certain amount of life's awkwardness, humiliation and sheer mess. At the very least, they bring a domestic realism that no manipulator of presidential image will ever succeed in expunging...
...delegates to agree to free themselves from a proposed convention rule that would bind them on the first ballot to vote for the candidate they were chosen to support in state primaries or caucuses. Said Rick Stearns, who coordinates Kennedy's delegate wooing: "If Carter's people succeed in forcing that rule through, I can't see any way, short of armed insurrection, that Carter won't be the nominee...
Though Reagan made "family" the first on the list of "shared values that he considers fundamental, he and his chief aides did their best to dismiss the controversy over family issues as relatively insignificant when compared with economic problems and foreign policy. That attempt may not succeed. Not only did pro-ERA demonstrators protest noisily outside the convention hall, but conservatives inside also indicated that these issues will not go away...
Gerrity said Rosovsky has consulted several members of the administration on possible choices to succeed Kaufmann and on ways to improve the Faculty's long-range financial planning capability...
...Harvard has a commitment to Boston's institutions like the MFA," Fouraker said. The University wants "to help them succeed and to make them superb institutions," he added...