Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MONTREAL vs. MINNESOTA: The North Stars are the NHL's most improved team, the Canadiens the team most likely to succeed (and succeed, and succeed...). Even when mired in the depths of their slump, the Habs still found enough to beat the surrogate Soviet national squad--i.e., the Red Army--when the descendents of Kornilov fell to the descendents of Cournoyer, 4-2, in a New Year's Eve game that meant something...
Ullman balances this torrent of abuse by including the perspectives of four maverick representatives of the music business. Management agent Maxine Gregg, who orchestrated Gordon's wildly successful "homecoming," claims that many jazz musicians could succeed like Gordon if they were willing to do some long-range career planning, but she concedes that a vicious cycle must be broken first...
...newly divisive issue is the question of who will succeed Romero as Archbishop of San Salvador. Vatican prelates are suggesting that the Pope, who has indicated he would like to depoliticize Latin American priests, is inclined to choose "a safe person, not as politically involved as Romero and able to get along with whatever regime emerges." But there is no one of real stature in the El Salvador hierarchy who matches that description. Thus some prelates believe the Pope may play it even safer and simply name an apostolic administrator to step in until hostilities have subsided...
...Beth Israel search committee recommended Braunwald to succeed Dr. Franklin H. Epstein, who announced his resignation as the hospital's chief of medicine last year to take a sabbatical, Adelstein said...
...contrast, baseball's owners present themselves to the public as the victims of their player's demands, forced to stand pat to prevent the total destruction of the sport by the forces unleashed by the players over the last decade. If they succeed in per-petuating that myth and gaining public support through it, the owners will ensure a long strike. In doing that they will betray player and fan alike in order to cover their own management lapses and gruesome lack of self-discipline...