Word: prevailing
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Whether the President can prevail in his determination to slash funding for social programs, rather than military projects, in tackling deficits now estimated as high as $200 billion in each of the next two years is doubtful. Last week Budget Director David Stockman ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to save some $500 million in the fiscal 1984 budget by sharply cutting the personnel of the Public Health Service. All ten regional offices of the Public Health Service would be abolished. The Stockman directive will be effective unless it is withdrawn by the Administration or vetoed by Congress...
...over-simplification and self-deception used by the Administration to defend the likes of Zia obscures some technical issues like nuclear arms development. But on the question of human rights, only the truth--and with it our guilt--can prevail. In Pakistan, General Zia's martial law (Regulation 53) declares the death sentence for "any offense liable to cause insecurity, fear, or despondency amongst the public," and presumes the accused guilty until proven innocent in front of a military court. Yet in the end, America's military and economic support for such human rights violators will haunt us long after...
...Brien concludes that "some improvements in our systems" ought to be made, but he resolutely maintains Harvard doesn't owe the government anything, as far as the Med School is concerned. "We think our interpretation will prevail, but I don't know...
...help him discredit Marxism in public speeches. Last month, for example, the Administration sponsored a "forum for peace and democracy," at which Caribbean and Latin American allies in effect swore allegiance to capitalism and shared the President's disdain for socialism and communism. But despite all his efforts to prevail ideologically. Reagan has achieved only marginal success...
...Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, 73, as well as key functionaries in the party bureaucracy such as Konstantin Chernenko, 71, and a handful of republic and urban party leaders like Moscow Boss Viktor Grishin, 68. The new General Secretary will have to appoint known loyalists if he hopes to prevail in Politburo debate...