Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...firms and pledged to do more to calm down the dollar-yen exchange rate. On the following day, the Bank of Japan briefly intervened in the foreign-exchange markets, buying dollars to support the value of the U.S. currency. But no one could be sure that the bank would succeed, and a sense of helplessness came over many Japanese executives. Said an official of NEC, a leading Japanese electronics manufacturer: "It is like groping our way in the dark. All we want now is for the exchange rate to stabilize...
...Congressmen, many from the South and West, after Walter Mondale's rout in the 1984 presidential election, the D.L.C. set out to do three things: shift the party away from standard-brand liberalism, stem defections to the G.O.P., and create a climate for a moderate or conservative Democrat to succeed Ronald Reagan as President. What a difference a year makes. Notes Virginia ex- Governor Charles Robb, who will shortly become the next D.L.C. chairman: "What we've done is evoke new interest in the party. We're providing a showcase for a message and for messengers...
...only child of a wealthy businessman, Chirac was born in 1932 in Paris and attended the city's top public schools. "Too talkative, too distracted, too excitable to succeed," predicted one school report card. Nonetheless Chirac's grades earned him entrance to the elite Institut d'Etudes Politiques, and he finished third in his class...
...create safer, more productive workplaces. It may also begin to stem the plague of drug use in America. As more companies require job applicants to prove that they are drug free, it will become increasingly difficult to use drugs and make a living. The economic deterrent may begin to succeed where the legal deterrent has failed. Says Walsh of the National Institute on Drug Abuse: "We feel that if Big Business continues as it has in the last year to develop more and more stringent kinds of policies, it eventually will reduce the demand for illicit substances...
...Michael Barnes (D-Md.), subcommittee chairman, said the two votes mean that "very likely the Reagan request will ultimately not succeed...