Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only question mark that remained at the November meeting, however, was whether the concentration would succeed in attracting undergraduates. Now, six months later, administrators say they are pleased with the progress thus...
...fellow mourners, I will leave it to the historians to debate exactly what "symbolic" means. What is not debatable is that a political movement that can only generate "symbolic" protests that weren't meant to succeed is a dead movement...
...trying everything short of outright fighting to stem the growing strength of the guerilla revolt. But plush relocation camps to concentrate the peasants and helicopter supply lifts cannot sustain unpopular President Diem's rule without direct U.S. military support. Even such military action, however, would be likely to succeed only in the distant future. If U.S. policy continues, as guerilla fighting spreads and more American troops pour into Vietnam, the U.S. will doubtless be involved, in a shooting capacity, with a long and messy jungle...
...firings came after the wife of one of two officers arrested in the case revealed that police officials had paid hush money to her family. But the shuffle has implications beyond the cover-up. The President's Democratic Justice Party meets next week to pick a candidate to succeed him when he steps down in February. D.J.P. Chairman Roh Tae Woo appears to have Chun's blessing. Insiders say the sacking of Chang and Lho should strengthen Roh's position...
...they succeed while other pioneers failed? Howard, a former editor of the Wrights' papers at the Library of Congress, suggests a kind of sibling synergy. Individually, the brothers were smart and handy. Together, their complementary skills and temperaments set off a brilliant chain reaction. The Wrights were also practical tradesmen who could finance their flying experiments through the cycle company. The cost of building and launching the 1903 Flyer was, according to Orville, less than $1,000, while the U.S. Government spent $50,000 to have Samuel Langley construct a similar aircraft that fell into the Potomac River seconds after...