Word: prevails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's battle is being waged on three fronts: reviving the economy, dealing with a divided Congress and restoring his deteriorating popularity. These goals are related. For him to prevail in Congress, he must improve his public standing. That, in turn, will require him to convince the nation that the economy, as he said twice in his address, "is on the mend." He carried that theme to Boston, and he will take it this week to Missouri and Maryland. He has reason to be hope ful. Last week it was announced that the index of leading economic indicators rose...
...raised. Republicans Robert Dole of Kansas, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Barber Conable of New York, a tax expert in the House, put their opposition on the record last week. Many Congressmen and Senators also feel that a plan to raise taxes only if certain conditions prevail is inadequate. They will propose a surcharge that would take effect in late 1985, come what...
...already have been decided in the abolitionists' favor. Bittaker's prosecutor had an apt beyond-the-pale phrase for Bittaker and his partner: "mutants from hell." Can they be human? Without killers in this league, more of America's logic and instinctive sense of mercy could prevail. There might be more electorates like Michigan's and more Governors like New York's who declare that capital punishment is unworthy of a decent society...
...annual convention in Brighton this year, the slogan was THE RESOLUTE APPROACH, and no one doubts that in any election campaign Thatcher will trumpet her readiness to battle any comers, whether they be crusty trade union chiefs, Argentine generals or hectoring Commons members. And, as ever, she plans to prevail. When a close friend recently asked her, "Who will come after you?" she replied insouciantly, "After me?there's me!" No one thinks she is joking...
...number of Polish factories will be released from the military supervision that has proliferated since the declaration of martial law. But the same disciplinary rules will continue to prevail, meaning that managers can fire workers without appeal, and that workers cannot resign without management approval. The government also plans to review managers of state enterprises, top government officials and officials in schools of higher learning for both professional competence and "moral character...