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Carter appreciated these moves, and Vance's influence with him grew steadily. The President, however, still vacillates between the Vance and Brzezinski approaches to the Russians. Increasingly, Vance tends to prevail on the practical tactics to be taken in pursuing agreed-upon foreign policy goals...
...former U.S. Deputy Attorney General who is now counsel to the Wall Street law firm Dewey Ballantine: "The legal process, because of its unbridled growth, has become a cancer which threatens the vitality of our forms of capitalism and democracy." Others wonder whether the rule of law will prevail in the U.S., or the rule of lawyers...
...House bill contains a controversial clause proposing that Federal guidelines prevail over local guidelines, but the Senate version contains no such clause...
...center-right coalition should prevail in the second round. Valery Giscard d'Estaing would emerge with strengthened authority. But he would then face perhaps a more exacting challenge: how to save his country from an economic crisis that is approaching faster than most Frenchmen realize...
...price of oil, which has remained frozen for months. Reason: to offset the decline in value of the dollars in which OPEC's 13 members are paid for their petroleum. Saudi Arabia, OPEC's linchpin, is still opposed to a price boost, but whether it can prevail is becoming less certain. Iraq and Kuwait are among the leading OPEC members who demand a rise in prices and perhaps even an end to the dollar's role as the sole currency in which world oil prices are quoted...