Word: succeeding
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...human level, many Hungarians have proved unable to handle the pressures that go with the freedom to succeed or fail. An estimated 15% of the work force takes sedatives on the job. A survey published in March concluded that half of all workers have trouble falling asleep at night as a result of financial worries. By 1980, one-third of the men eligible for military service had been rejected because of neuroses. Hungary traditionally has had a high suicide rate; it now leads the world with 43.5 self-inflicted deaths per 100,000 people, one-third more than runner...
Says Bonafini: "Every time there are violations, we go out to demonstrate, and as we are a strong movement, we will succeed. We always have to be on our guard so it doesn't happen again...
Staff members said that a Bank of Boston branch may succeed the restaurant. The owners of the Cambridge restaurant and the owners of the Mug-N-Muffin franchise could not be reached for comment yesterday...
Experts estimate that the distress sale gave People a cash transfusion good for perhaps several months of life. Within that time, the airline must begin to succeed on the new course that it set in May, to become a conventional airline competing for business travelers. Many industry specialists are doubtful that People, with its reputation for spartan travel conditions and first-come, first-served seating, will be able to convince passengers that it has made the switch. Says J. Henry Riefle, general manager of Manhattan's Hardach Travel Service: "No matter what People Express does, it will always be perceived...
...list of recorded volumes, now some 12,000 titles long, is as wide as a library. Some are only one tape: about an hour and a half. Others can go on for days. Listeners can wander from Hamlet and Moby Dick to Tough Marriage and Eat to Succeed. Although fiction is the most beguiling, self-help books are in greatest demand: The One Minute Manager, In Search of Excellence, 21 Days to Stop Smoking. On occasion, more calorific titles come into earshot: Totally Lewd Limericks, How to Make Love to a Man (prefaced by the warning "This tape contains explicit...