Word: succeeds
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...children need attention and advice if they are to succeed later, she said. "The training takes because the kid is told early on 'this is what you have...
Every year the Outing Club returns with the same losing entry. They succeed in distinguishing themselves both as cowards, protecting their delicate complexions behind raincoats and riot helmets, and as dullards, foolishly believing they can pass off their Grumman canoes as hand-made. To these paragons of ignorance we can only say, stay indoors, it may rain...
Most of the people who rise to the top in Cambridge politics have lived here all their lives. They succeed because they have known from childhood how the city works and how their neighborhood thinks...
...firm to close the book on a 2 1/2-year federal probe. But the price is high. The agreement puts Drexel on probation for three years and requires it to set up an oversight committee. The firm is also naming a new chairman, former SEC head John Shad, to succeed Drexel's Robert Linton. As expected, the deal forces Drexel to cut all ties to its former junk-bond king, Michael Milken, who is facing separate criminal charges of racketeering and securities fraud. Last week Milken agreed to set aside assets of at least $600 million, which could be forfeited...
Whatever his critics may think, Welsh's publications, like all other children's magazines, have to pass a dual test to succeed. They must appeal first to kids and then to parents, grandparents and schoolteachers, who write the checks for subscriptions...