Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...longer than anyone in Washington can remember, Presidents have been confronted by frothing opponents who claim, "He has no foreign [or domestic] policy." Translated, that generally means, "I won't accept his ideas but I don't have anything of my own." Fortunately, such obfuscation does not prevail long. The political record indicates that any President who acts successfully to change things gets the credit for initiating a fresh approach no matter how old the ideas...
...some gruesome photos of decapitated bodies, people missing limbs, others disfigured by acid-all the work of the death squads-the director says she is afraid that after March 25, when the outside world's attention will no longer be turned on El Salvador, horror will again prevail...
...Organization led by P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat. Last week, however, King Hussein turned thumbs down on any such initiative. In a stinging rebuke to Washington, the King told the New York Times: "I now realize that principles mean nothing to the U.S. Short-term issues, especially in election years, prevail...
...press has been partly irresponsible." The keynote speaker, U.S. Appeals Court Judge Irving Kaufman, contended that the results in libel cases may be distorted by jurors' distaste for journalism. Said Kaufman: "Broadcast and print media are perceived by some as aloof, arrogant and insensitive." News organizations eventually prevail in more than 90% of libel cases, according to the Libel Defense Resource Center, but in the past three years journalists have lost 83% of initial jury trials, and in 22 cases the damage award was more than $1 million. Even when awards are reversed on appeal, cases sometimes cost more...
...well beaten path to the wealthy with only a few small side trails to public service? Two popular explanations prevail. One hypothesis is that today's college graduate is less idealistic, more selfish than his predecessor of a generation ago. He lacks a social conscience and cannot be counted on to change the world. The other theory accepts this view but embraces it So what if the sharpest mind makes the best living warding off anti-trust complaints? Society, through the market, has decided it values this the most. In the circular logic of pure capitalism, "utility has been optimized...