Word: conquered
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...only failed to ease the conflict between man and nature," Gorbachev argued, "it has aggravated that conflict . . . The crisis of civilization that we see today is a crisis of the naive belief in the omnipotence of humanity." He contended that the world must abandon the urge to conquer nature and adopt a "philosophy of limits" based on an understanding that technology cannot solve all problems...
...cost of McCaw's visionary expansion is a staggering debt load of nearly $5 billion and losses of $715 million in the past two years. Even with that burden, McCaw is expected to play a crucial role in AT&T's quest to conquer the emerging field of wireless communications. Almost all calls now originate or terminate on conventional wall-jack telephones (even if they are cordless within the home). But analysts predict that cellular-type phones will gradually replace hard-wired sets. That could mean trouble for local telephone companies, whose monopoly depends on phones remaining tied down...
...mission to conquer Earth, a spaceship from Remulak crash-lands in Manhattan's East River. So the Coneheads must make do in the land of the Bluntskulls. They make better than do. Despite their three rows of teeth and their tendency to use condoms as chewing gum, Beldar and Prymaat and their earthborn daughter Connie (Michelle Burke) adapt splendidly to New Jersey suburban life. For this is the Conehead version of that familiar Hollywood fable, the grelbon out of pluvarb (bird out of water -- there are no fish on Remulak...
...tried to keep the everyman, who was ambitious and wanted to conquer the world and had the American dream handed to him and finds out that it's rotten inside, then has to find a way to outwit both the lawmakers and the lawbreakers," he said
Simple pride was another factor that, in addition to the economic factors, appeared to help tourism promoters conquer the fears of some city residents...