Word: succeeding
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...right. In The Jaguar Smile, the result of his three week stay in the embattled country last summer, Rushdie attempts to bring reality to a controversy too often plagued by abstraction. But while his two-dimensional snapshots do not make for a convincing political argument, Rushdie does succeed in injecting a startling dose reality into the otherwise hollow debate over U.S. Central American policy...
...strategists insist that the Corps retains a vital role in modern warfare. Lieut. General Alfred Gray, who commands the Fleet Marine Force (Atlantic), admits, "You'll never see staged assaults like Iwo Jima or Tarawa again." But Gray, who is thought to be one of the leading candidates to succeed Marine Commandant P.X. Kelley, adds, "Our mission is sustained power projection. For power to be sustained, it must come from...
Peres' diplomatic initiative had the blessing of neither the Israeli Cabinet nor the Prime Minister. When Shamir heard about the Peres proposal, he warned, "No salvation, and certainly no peace, can result from this." To reporters he snapped, "I hope he won't succeed." Shamir fears the Soviets' involvement would help the Arabs exact territorial concessions from Israel and give Moscow the power to impose its own terms on the Middle East...
Boston's musical past suggests why an attempt to recognize Boston's music scene and to attribute such importance to it is unlikely to succeed. Twenty years ago, when San Francisco was hailed as the breeding ground for innovative rock music, record executives had similar success in mind for Boston, for no particularly good reason. They convinced Boston musicians--and themselves--that the "Bosstown Sound" was going to be the Next Big Thing. The public didn't buy it, though, and such memorable local bands as Phluph, Ultimate Spinach, and Beacon Street Union found themselves millionaires one month and broke...
Freedman will succeed current president David T. McLaughlin, whose five-year tenure at Dartmouth has been marked by friction over student activism and faculty relations, campus observers have said...