Word: succeeding
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...using the Macs for everything from planning diets to balancing equations. But it was the school's effective use of a $2.8 million grant from the Pew Memorial Trust for faculty computer training that really made the difference. "We knew that if anything was going to make this program succeed, it would be the Drexel faculty," says Bernard Sagik, vice president for academic affairs. His innovative solution: invite teachers to become their own software developers. Faculty members with good ideas for educational computer programs were paired off with crack student and professional programmers. Their joint efforts resulted in a library...
Ever since politically beleaguered Rene Levesque, 63, announced last June that he would resign both as Quebec's premier and leader of the ruling Parti Quebecois, provincial Justice Minister Pierre-Marc Johnson, 39, has been the front runner to succeed him. Last week, in a provincewide party election, Johnson won 60% of the vote and the helm of the party that swept to power in 1976 on a surge of sentiment for separating Quebec from the rest of Canada. He ascends to the provincial premiership that his father Daniel held from 1966 until his death...
...Jody's the kind of person that will succeed no matter what she tries," says David McLaughlin, Dushay's cross country and track coach at Brighton High School in Rochester...
...also says a new trend toward "privatization," wherein local governments contract out public services to private companies, will succeed in changing the way government meets its responsibilities to its citizens...
...economy, permitting a measure of political freedom and, not least, about dealing with political opposition. Culture Minister Zhu described last week's achievement as "a symbol of the maturity" of the Chinese party and thus of Deng's leadership. That still leaves the question of who will eventually succeed the durable Deng. When told last week during a visit by Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew that the world is wondering who could possibly replace him in the Chinese hierarchy, Deng reportedly laughed and replied that he had no worries on that score. "Even if the sky falls," he told...