Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...chosen wisely. I am not an Obama fan, but I am a fan of our country. The day after the election, I frankly pissed off a lot of my real die-hard Republicans when I said, "He is my President. He is your President." We must have him succeed. If he fails, we all fail...
...them. [Writer/director Salvatore Stabile] raised a million dollars for the homeless with the movie. It won the Humanitas [Sundance Film Category] Award for writing. I read it and it just broke me down. I guess being a man you have this fantasy that you have to succeed, and you're the provider and the glue to the family and all that responsibility. What happens when you fail at that...
...would be the presidential or the vice presidential candidate, about my agenda versus your agenda,” Wong says, indicating this unity. But it remains to be seen if this spontaneous partnership—made up of two individuals with differing backgrounds and personalities—will succeed at the polls.‘POLITICAL VIEWS: APATHETIC’The contrast between James and Wong is most apparent in the discussion of their life stories and political experiences.James speaks unabashedly about his rough background growing up in the South with his sister and mother, who, disabled from a back...
...Businesses and analogous enterprises like government do right to favor candidates with proven abilities to succeed in challenging and competitive environments, and no doubt a proven track record of success at an elite university speaks highly of its holder. Education, however, traditionally has been conceived as its own end, the pursuit of truth and the acquisition of virtue—good in and of itself. Meritocrats inevitably see education as a means to an end, some merely instrumental good. Therefore, an excessive reliance on meritocracy at the cost of, say, strength of character or capacity for virtue, would seem...
...irresponsible," says Adam Schiff, a California Democrat and member of both the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees. Saying he has conferred with but does not speak for Obama's transition team, Schiff adds, "Attempts to limit the next President's options at Guantánamo are not likely to succeed." (See pictures inside Guantánamo...