Word: prevail
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With minor variations, the same negotiating patterns prevail throughout Scandinavia. The harmony derives from a distinctively Scandinavian sense of selfdiscipline. Items...
Looking back on its greatest success -the Oct. 15 Moratorium Day-the multifaceted U.S. peace movement is exhilarated. Looking ahead to its plans for November, it is worried. Can the momentum be sustained? Can violence be avoided? Most of all, will the desire for peace prevail over the movement's tendency to wage internal war over goals and tactics...
...Bosworth Field." In the end, that fate may befall Edward Richard George Heath, 53, who in five years as the Tories' leader has not yet impressed his own party, much less the British electorate. He is another example of the bland, almost face less leadership that seems to prevail in many other parts of the world as well (see the ESSAY...
...likely be only temporary; behind the scenes, the country may well be run by a collective leadership. Challengers are likely to rise from the radical left, headed by Mao's wife Chiang Ching and such Cultural Revolution stalwarts as Ideologue Chen Pota. Eventually, however, more moderate forces may prevail, perhaps clustered around Premier Chou En-lai and the politically savvy Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, General Huang Yung-sheng...
...economy remains overheated in many sectors but is becoming perceptibly cooler. Industrial production fell by a fraction of a point in August, the first drop in a year. Retail sales continue sluggish. Storms prevail in the housing market. Private housing starts declined for the seventh straight month, and the scarcity and high cost of mortgage money assure that rough weather will persist. Interest rates on U.S. Treasury notes reached 8%, the highest in 110 years...