Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adapting play to screen, Norman and Director Tom Moore have been somewhat undone by their new medium's imperatives. The realism of camera close-ups turns probability into utter implausibility. And the casting of Anne Bancroft and Sissy Spacek, who cannot help projecting intelligence and the will to prevail, is inimical to the story's cause. Still, the painful honesty of the play's psychological observations survives and remains worthy of attention...
...senseless a definition could prevail only in a time when there are few social penalties for destructively free behavior. The crime of murder carries demonstrably severe penalties, and so requires no continuous statement of community disapproval. But for the great range of social crimes, for everything from gossip to greed, no sanctions exist except those that a community informally may agree to impose: banishment, disgrace, curtailment of income. In the world these days, social crimes rarely are penalized and often are rewarded. Investment companies receive relatively small fines for major theft. Insider traders are glorified as clever. A best-selling...
Many of the conditions that fostered the rise of the discount carriers no longer prevail. Right after deregulation, the major airlines were at a serious disadvantage: during the time they were protected by the Government from competition, they had become high-cost, unionized operations. In the previous 40 years, the old Civil Aeronautics Board had received 79 applications from companies that wanted to become long-distance, interstate airlines; not one was approved. When competition was opened up in 1978, the fleet of new carriers generally employed relatively cheap nonunion labor and used smaller crews on their aircraft than established airlines...
...controversy seems headed for a congressional showdown. California Democrat Douglas Bosco is pushing a House bill, with 39 co-sponsors, to void the FDA's approval of irradiation for pork, fruits and vegetables. The industry's supporters, however, are convinced that they will prevail. Says Physicist Welt: "It took 50 years for canned food to be accepted by your grandmother. It took frozen food 20 years to be accepted by your mother. It will take the housewives of today five years to accept irradiated food...
...reform may cost my job, but it is a long-overdue effort at making the tax code equitable for the working people. If the bill must be modified, I hope the Washington politicians will let common sense and simplification prevail...