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Word: succeeding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...touching when anxious for them, Wiprud stays in the background throughout the play. A quiet, unspectacular role, mouthing soothing commonplaces to his children about the necessity of growing up, Wiprud nevertheless makes this father the sort everyone would like to have. As his wife, Shelley Evans does not succeed so well. She is warm and endearing, but unconvincing. Ill at ease with the physical mannerisms of a fifty-year old woman, she moves jerkily and too quickly. Evans conveys maternal anxiety well, but not maternal status...

Author: By Katherine Ashton, | Title: Idyllic Innocence | 3/14/1980 | See Source »

Harvard's implicit condoning of such illicit and immoral government practice raises serious questions about the role of its Institute of International Development. If Harberger were to succeed as its Director, what future policies and predictions might we expect from a prestigious organization that exerts considerable influence in world economic advising, such as that of Harberger, which only leads to economic chaos and violations of human rights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HIID Redux | 3/12/1980 | See Source »

...succeed in defeating the Vietnamese, we will use currency, we will permit more freedom of movement by our citizens. People will be free to practice religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: A Plea for International Support | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

...know anything definite, but there have been no fewer than 2 million victims of the Vietnamese. If we don't succeed in stopping the Vietnamese, then extermination will occur. At present, our people are dying every day. In every village, five or six people die each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: A Plea for International Support | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

Women are generally relegated to low positions where they succeed in getting placed at all. Slightly more than one-third of the colleges and universities in this country do not have any women deans. At Harvard, while a large proportion of women are on administrative and professional staffs, women still do not fill the highest positions, e.g., vice presidents and full deans. In the faculty, women occupy junior positions. At Harvard, where there is no tenure track system for any junior faculty members, the problem for women is compounded. For, the issue can be avoided by raising affirmative action statistics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOCK-OUT: Women Academics | 3/6/1980 | See Source »

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