But he is trapped between the frustrated, impatient young _ 60 percent of today's Iranians were toddlers or not yet born at the time of the 1979 Islamic takeover _ who urge him to race ahead, and conservative clerical overlords who wait watchfully to trip him up, and more often than not succeed in doing so.
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"Now, Sen . Bobby Byrd's done a whole lot for this state, but Bobby Byrd's just like all our politicians here : they're coal company men, " said Weekley, a retired miner who chain-smoked watchfully in the autumnal glow of the hollow where his mother was born.
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Over the next few months, she used Hong Kong as her recreation port and stood by, watchfully waiting, at the ports of Swatow, Canton, Foochow, Amoy, and Yeungkong . " Asheville " witnessed three changes of government during her visits to Swatow and, as the occasion demanded, sent Marines ashore to protect American lives and property.