Word: succeeding
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Midgetman is the nickname given the missile intended to succeed the MX nuclear weapon, which itself has been the subject of bitter fights the past four years...
...USDA as Deputy Secretary during Reagan's first term as President. In Washington he has earned a reputation as a smooth operator who can handle lobbyists, bureaucrats and even Congressmen, with a cool head. Thus it was no surprise last week when the President nominated Lyng to succeed John Block as Secretary of Agriculture. As farmers struggle with depressed prices and exorbitant interest rates, the new Secretary will have his work cut out for him. While Lyng has a more low-key management style than his outgoing predecessor, he has said that he and Block share the same philosophy about...
...goal which its present Administration would like to achieve. American ingenuity may have enjoyed its triumphs, but science has never before been asked to develop a technology immune to progress. Future thinkers and further technological developments are destined to challenge a space-based defense system, and whether they succeed in 10 years or 20 is of relatively minor significance...
...that the presence of Harvard interns would merely encourage the inherently flawed notion of constructive engagement. According to the African National Congress's representative to the United Nations, "those people who claim they are going to South Africa in order to change its educational system, wittingly or not, only succeed in sabotaging the cultural boycott and helping apartheid to break its international isolation...
Adam S. Cohen '84, a second-year law student, will succeed Carol S. Steiker as the controversial review's top dog. Cohen, who garnered the position out of a field of 11 candidates, was said to have been celebrating his victory into the wee hours of the morning with 200 of his closest friends at the Lincoln...