Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Buddha-like face throughout, walked over to Raisa for a chat. "A very good and important speech," he said. As Shultz knows as well as anyone, that will depend on whether Soviet realities come to match Gorbachev's rhetoric. If they do, the ramifications are enormous. Should Gorbachev succeed in reducing the expansionist threat that Moscow poses to the West, loosening its domination over Eastern Europe and changing its repressive relationship with its citizens, then indeed the fundamental reasons for the great global struggle between East and West -- and the rationale for the containment policy that has shaped America...
...hopeful development is that scientists have learned how to derive synthetic HDL particles from natural HDL made in the body. At the Rogosin Institute, researchers are injecting this compound into rabbits to see if raising HDL protects them against atherosclerosis. Should such experiments succeed, it is conceivable that synthetic HDL could one day become an effective treatment for heart patients. Rogosin's Gordon notes, however, that this research "is still years away from clinical application...
...ignore the Democrats' black base. He merely wants to render it less threatening to the white conservatives who have fled to the G.O.P. One way to do that, says Nunn, is to adopt centrist programs that "don't appear to give away the store," a shift that could only succeed with Jackson's concurrence -- as unlikely a prospect as the actual eclipsing of Jackson himself. The Governor of New York champions another idea for dealing with Jackson. "We have to start treating Jesse like everyone else," says Mario Cuomo. "No more condescension. No more double standards. Give him the dignity...
Rodgers' ideas, as it turns out, revolve around an offense geared to the running game. The Celtics, formerly a team designed around a half-court offense, would have to run in order to succeed, Rodgers said...
Antiabortion activists, jubilant at the election of George Bush, say victory is almost at hand. Will they succeed? Pro- choice groups say no and make plans to take their battle into the streets...