Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pronounced Kwa-tay-mok -- moved into Los Pinos, a white stone box set in a corner of Mexico City's Chapultepec Park. "I have only isolated images of it," says Cardenas of his boyhood home. "But one thing I do remember: I was given every possible opportunity to succeed...
...happens around people who succeed, there are prophecies "remembered" from Michael's school days about his future prowess. But a classmate, Mikki Ansin, says great things were predicted of many students at that forced-pace high school. "We all got the message -- we were headed somewhere." Brookline has been hospitable to strivers -- about a third of the population Dukakis grew up with was Jewish. Today about 20% of the community is made up of industrious South Asians...
...their allies ran each other's campaigns, coordinated their movements, agreed on slates to bring their joint efforts to bear for everyone's benefit. Sometimes one would defer to another, as Sumner Kaplan did to Dukakis by opening up his own seat on the legislature for his protege to succeed him in 1963, or when Fran Meaney left another candidate's campaign to help Dukakis. The first break in this code came in 1969 after Dukakis had agreed to run for attorney general against Elliot Richardson while Beryl Cohen, an ally from his high school days, would run for Lieutenant...
...preparations for war succeeded only because the country had manpower, skills, resources, and industrial capacity enormous enough to succeed in spite of itself," Brinkley writes. "And because a nation coming out of 10 years of deep depression had a great pool of men and women who had been unemployed for so long that they were hungry for jobs and eager to work anywhere, anytime, doing anything...
Institute of Politics Director Richard L. Thornburgh, named by President Reagan to succeed Meese, has said he will pursue any evidence against Meese wherever it may lead...