Word: succeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will succeed Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board when his term expires next year? A new front runner may have emerged last week when the President nominated Manuel Johnson, 37, a Fed member for only three months, to be vice chairman of the board, replacing Preston Martin, who resigned in April. Reagan also named a new board member: Bank of America Economist H. Robert Heller...
...shade too composed and cerebral in her thoroughly adult second film, the delightful period comedy % A Room with a View. Her character, a properly brought-up young person who allows herself to become engaged to a twit, is supposed to be slightly silly, but Bonham Carter does not quite succeed in counterfeiting nitwittedness. She needs to study acting, she knows, and to find time for a university education. She needs to stop being 19. "At the moment I don't have much to impart to the world, and I wish this attention would come at a time when...
...while the line may fall short, organizers believe they will succeed in raising money and consciousness about hunger and homelessness...
...paycheck. After visiting the day-care-center manager who would look after her newborn child, UCLA's Burnam lamented, "I was really depressed to think that this woman would spend more time with my child than I would." After putting in the kinds of long hours required to succeed in almost any profession, working mothers return home wondering how they will muster enough energy to give their children more than just a good-night kiss. It helps that more men are willing to lend a hand with housework and child rearing. Even so, men are far more likely than women...
Former Senatorial candiate James Shannon is the leader in the race to succeed Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti, who surprised many this spring when he said he would not seek reelection...