But this week the market rallied sharply, the Dow up 3.2% for the week, reflecting mounting confidence that politicians are coming to their senses and will succeed in hammering out a compromise that will either resolve the fiscal cliff threat, or more probably succeed in kicking it down the road to next summer.
Thomson slid as he tried to guide the ball out for a goal-kick, but only succeed in knocking it out.
This week, Syria's Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Faisal Mekdad told me there would be "hopefully, very good news very soon" that government forces would succeed in driving out rebel fighters.
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Government representatives from the Ministry of Commerce, the State Council, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and various Chambers of Commerce were all bullish on the opportunities for Chinese enterprises to go out and succeed.
An experiment, granted, that most observers still want to see play itself out, and succeed.
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Startups backed by professional venture capital do better--maybe three out of ten succeed in some fashion.
B-School is a great educational opportunity in life, but you still have to go out there and succeed.
So eventually, if they were to succeed, once somebody is out of the picture, the next one will be the chicken farm down the road.
My message to graduates is if you want to succeed, you have to go out and work for it.
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Many people succeed at producing innovations because they churn out a very large number of ideas, both good and bad, says Dean Keith Simonton, a psychology professor at the University of California, Davis.
It is in America's interests to see China succeed in lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.
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"I used to get really stressed out when I couldn't succeed, and now I'm just like: I do my best, " she said.
If Conservative rebels succeed, with Labour help, in throwing out the timetable in getting the legislation through parliament it could be enough to delay the plans for months or even years.
Any newcomer figures out pretty quickly that, to succeed in a new group, he or she needs to imitate how things are done by the most successful members of the group.
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If Duffaut is to succeed in the terms that have been set out for himself and SAP, he will have to aggressively move to increase the number of competent partners who are highly motivated.
The rough edges appear to have smoothed out, but the underlying drive to succeed at all costs is still there.
Shari is vice chairman of both public companies, and entitled, per an agreement spelled out in the irrevocable trust, to succeed her father as chairman when he quits or dies.
They also raise questions about whether, as Yeltsin announced yesterday, his old guard Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin would succeed him as president if Yeltsin could not carry out his duties.
It was launched, in 2000, by Neil Clark Warren, a clinical psychologist who had spent three decades treating and studying married couples and working out theories about what made their marriages succeed or fail.
Not that we were ever that optimistic about peace breaking out in the war between HD-DVD and Blu-ray, the two rival high-def disc formats that are duking it out over which one is going to succeed the DVD, but you can forget about whatever Sony was saying in recent weeks about being open to burying the hatchet and working to develop a single standard.
Coty's plan for squeezing more out of Avon, should its takeover offer succeed, includes spending more on technology.
When you succeed through cheating and lying, people might not find out right away, but they find out eventually.
The only way to truly succeed over time is to use your head, think out long-term trends, figure out where productivity exists (and therefore wealth is being created) in the economy, and invest your mind or your money alongside it.
We should consider out of the box thinking if we are to succeed without damaging our own economy beyond repair.
In recounting his success, Mr. Khosla is adamant that having a firm and well-thought-out willingness to fail gave him the ability to succeed.
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