Word: succeeding
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...more Obama can more on from here to couple his portrait of race to the broader challenge of economic opportunity, the more he'll bridge the racial divide on a philosophical level - and succeed in making connections with white voters on the political level...
...succeed I don't know if there is a formula. I think the problem is that people have been pursuing formulas. Both the American government, the American military, the Iraqi politicians, the elected leadership there have been caught up in finding formulas. How many Shi'ites in cabinet? How many Sunnis? Should a Sunni be president? Should a Shi'ite be prime minister? These kinds of sectarian mathematics don't work. They didn't work in Lebanon, they won't work in Iraq. I'm looking for straws in the wind. I'm looking for actual improvements where they...
...finance, such as CDOs, that contained pools of mortgages. It also exploded into the secondary market, where speculative investors, hedge funds and others would buy and sell CDS instruments from the sidelines without having any direct relationship with the underlying investment. "They're betting on whether the investments will succeed or fail," said Pincus. "It's like betting on a sports event. The game is being played and you're not playing in the game, but people all over the country are betting on the outcome...
...economics professor Jeffry A. Frieden wrote in an e-mail recalling that night. But, he wrote, his impression of experts in the room was that “they largely believed that Saddam Hussein did in fact have weapons of mass destruction; and that the invasion would probably succeed in its immediate goals.” Louise M. Richardson, a lecturer at the Law School and the author of “What Terrorists Want,” was the only one who predicted that night just how difficult the course of the conflict would be, Frieden wrote. Richardson said...
...straight hip-hop track withstuttering hi-hats that are more Lil’ Jonthan Johnny Cash. Nor does it make sensethat Snoop raps about being gangsta andscooping honeys immediately before discussingmiddle age and his past maritalproblems with wife Shante. The album’sdiverse styles succeed in some ways andfail utterly in others.All in all, “Ego Trippin’” is a decent album,and certainly the strangest one thatSnoop Dogg has ever made. The trackscould have been selected more carefully,and the album should have been shorter.Despite these flaws, the production onthis album succeeds...