Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This Keeps up all day. Images of the Movie prevail during her visit and she admits that it still haunts her career. She is stunned that Harvard students still show the film as a freshman week tradition. "I haven't seen it in ten years. It's so far from my reality now," she says. "I just don't take it seriously anymore, though, let's face it, it changed my career." But as much as McGraw breathlessly exonerates herself from the movie, Jenny Cavilleri is grafted onto her. She knows this. Yet she can't understand why people...
What he can do is persist and prevail over most obstacles. When he thinks he is right, he is as stubborn as Chewbacca. When Luke doubts that he can raise his spaceship from the swamp, Yoda stamps his foot. "So sure are you?" he demands. "Tried have you? Always with you it can't be done. Hear you nothing that I say? Try not. Do! Do! Or do not. There is no try." Remembering Lucas' childhood, his father, George Lucas Sr., recalls a blank stare when he tried to persuade his son to do something...
...matter. The Jays prevail, 9-5. Only half the fans get frostbite...
...blockade be? Also, what would be its impact on other gulf states? What is the relationship of the Afghan to the Iranian crisis? Therefore, I think we have to pursue a more patient course than the one I would have advocated in November. We have to be sure we prevail if we move...
...agreed, say 90% of the time, but we disagreed 10% of the time. If Scowcroft disagreed, he would say so to the President and I wanted him to do that. But I felt that if as Secretary of State I could not present an argument that would prevail over that of the National Security Adviser, I did not deserve...