Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...starting the practice of songs. Still more important is the cheering. Not only was the leading, but also the response, poor on Saturday. Let us have one competent leader with a few good assistants; then let the cheering be a spontaneous outburst to show the team our determination to succeed...
Brian C. Offutt '87, chairman of theUndergraduate Council, offered to be a target foreager contestants. While waiting to take hisperch, Offutt sported a cigar and said, "I believethat no one will succeed in dunking me todaybecause I am invincible...
...defeat in the Senate as a sign of the public's dissatisfaction with Reagan's policies. An intransigent Democratic majority could thwart the Administration's legislative agenda, turning the President into a genuine lame duck and perhaps stealing some of the thunder from the Republicans in the contest to succeed Reagan...
...Mark Andrews blew a 12-point lead over Democratic Tax Commissioner Kent Conrad when he erroneously claimed that grain prices had been rising and took credit for the nonexistent increase. In Missouri, the acrimonious race between former Republican Governor Christopher ("Kit") Bond and Democratic Lieutenant Governor Harriett Woods to succeed Democratic Senator Thomas Eagleton is still too close to call...
Reagan has reminded the entire electorate that politicians can take strong stands and succeed. Whatever they think of his policies, voters clearly admire that quality and continue to look for it in candidates. That is the most important lesson of 1980, 1984 and so far of 1986 -- for those who vote right, left or center...