Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...text. The finale, when Figaro (Tony Plana) returned to join the junta and declared that the real measure of progress would be if the life of Almaviva (Olek Krupa) was spared, was a simply staged moment of glowing humanity, edged with doubt about whether Figaro's decency would prevail...
...refusing to speak in a single voice, Harvard ensures that its many individual voices may clamor freely in dissent. The most persuasive will prevail over the wider public...
...some people may be allergic to ingredients in fast foods. Stricter labeling, however, is only a small step to better health. As long as people enjoy the taste of big burgers, French fries and milk shakes -- high fat, high salt, high calories and all -- the fast-food fix will prevail...
...rates and offset the revenue loss by killing hundreds of exceptions and deductions. Yet they differ in dozens of all-important details. One example: the House bill preserves but the Senate measure ends for most people the deductibility of annual contributions to Individual Retirement Accounts. Should the Senate version prevail in conference, that one provision would cost taxpayers $25.5 billion over the next five years...
Other students suggested moderation, suggestingthat COCA allow intellectualism to prevail overemotionalism. "I have a sense of moral andintellectual superiority over this guy and I don'tsee how [being emotional] about this issue couldhelp us," said Jason Ravitz...