Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know, Reagan did not succeed in balancing the budget, but he did try his best to hold social spending to a minimum. In fact, Reagan went so far with his budget cutting that his attempts have backfired on him and his conservative colleagues. Even though conservatives now have a louder voice in the Republican Party, the party's overt reaction has been to move closer to the center this year than it ever would have dreamed...
Unfortunately for Reaganites, this means their Revolution has failed to succeed in the country's most prominent political arena, the presidential campaign. The Reagan Revolution's excesses have immediately pushed both parties closer to the political center but has created no net movement to either side...
...midnight Thursday, Gemayel's six-year presidential term expired. With Lebanon's fractious Christians and Muslims unable to agree on a candidate to succeed him, Gemayel asked a fellow Christian, army commander Michel Aoun, to head a transitional government of six military officers. The maneuver failed, however, because the three Muslim appointees refused to participate...
...Solidarity must exist. And Solidarity must be legalized. However, it should not be the same Solidarity as in 1980. This time we must be cleverer, better, stronger to succeed. We want the existing official unions, about which we now have reservations, to remain trade unions. But these trade unions must be pluralistic...
...There will be new talks, and eventually they will succeed. Whether it is strikes or war, even the biggest battles in history have ended sitting down at a table. What is better -- to be a boxing champion or a chess champion? I prefer chess. And I don't have any doubt that eventually we will...