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• v  attain success or reach a desired goal
• v  be the successor (of)
• a  coming after or following
• s  (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving

• He said it would fail and he still refuses to acknowledge that it is succeeding.
• You might think hiring people is easy, but there are both cultural and bureaucratic obstacles preventing them from succeeding.
• Obama's Foreign Policy Needs a Domestic Boost How can Obama deal with his mounting foreign policy problems? By succeeding at home Joe Klein's Biography.

• succeed
• win
• come through
• bring home the bacon
• deliver the goods
• come after
• follow
• future
• next

• fail
• precede
• preceding

News & Articles

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• GE Names CFO Sherin to Run Shrinking Finance Unit
  General Electric Co. (GE) appointed Chief Financial Officer Keith Sherin to take over as head of the company’s finance unit, succeeding the retiring Mike Neal.
  June 12, 2013 - Bloomberg
• GE Names Keith Sherin Chairman and CEO of GE Capital; Jeff Bornstein to succeed Sherin as CFO of GE
  GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt announced today the appointment of Keith Sherin as chairman and CEO of GE Capital, succeeding Mike Neal, who is retiring. Immelt also announced that GE Capital CFO Jeff Bornstein will succeed Sherin as CFO of GE.
  June 12, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
• Why the Facebook Innovation Machine Doesn't Work on Mobile Devices
  Reuters Facebook's future depends on succeeding on mobile phones, as questions about Facebook Home at the company's shareholder meeting once again made clear. Whatever Facebook says about the product now, ...
  June 11, 2013 - The Atlantic via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• President Bush in Tampa Tribune
  Members of Congress: The No Child Left Behind Act is a bipartisan achievement,Bush said in his speech. "It is succeeding. And we owe it to America's children, their parents and their teachers to strengthen this good law."
• John Boehner in Bloomberg
  We want this plan to have a chance of succeeding,Boehner said on the "Fox News Sunday" program. "By the time we get to September, October, members are going to want to know how well this is working, and if it isn't, what's Plan B?"
• Robert Gates in Reuters (press release)
  Our troops and coalition partners are making extraordinary sacrifices on behalf of our security, and our singular focus must be on supporting them and succeeding in Afghanistan without such distractions,Gates wrote.