Word: prevails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about 30 Christian Democrat Deputies, the so-called franchi tiratori, or snipers, who, although ostensibly loyal to the government, voted secretly against the measure. "Under these conditions," fumed Socialist Leader Bettino Craxi, "the country is literally ungovernable. Democracy is forced on its knees if powerful pressure groups can prevail over the will of Parliament and the general interest...
Winston inherited from his father Randolph a gift for contentious politics and the tactics to prevail. Winston's beautiful American mother, née Jennie Jerome, provided another legacy: absolute self-absorption. By one account, she took 200 lovers, and after Randolph's early death from syphilis married a former Scots Guardsman 16 days older than her son. As a boy, Winston made few friends at Harrow or Sandhurst, but his self-confidence remained unshaken. At 32, the young Under Secretary of the Colonial Office stated, "We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glowworm...
Republican Senator Charles Mathias of Maryland warns that "cunning will prevail"; the legislators who now vote for record deficits can always find ways to conceal future spending. And what if a recession forces expenditures on programs mandated by law (welfare, for example), above levels that Congress has authorized? Would lawsuits force the federal courts to decide what spending is or is not constitutional? Says Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont: "The courts would do a line-by-line review of the federal budget," a prospect sure to horrify conservatives who distrust the federal judiciary. The amendment has definite appeal...
...that, Haig usually managed to prevail on policy. Indeed, even his relations with the White House staff seemed to be improving early this year. The reason was Reagan's appointment of Clark as National Security Adviser to replace Richard Allen. Haig regarded Allen as a "guerrilla" who was sniping at him from the White House. Clark, a former California judge and longtime intimate of Reagan, had originally been brought into the Administration as No. 2 at the State Department, largely to serve as a trouble-shooter between Haig and the White House. He nonetheless worked amicably and effectively with...
Particularly telling is Angell's explanation of why these executives acted with such vengeance--why personal values, even when jeopardizing long-term economic self-interest were allowed to prevail. M. Donald Grant, general manager of the Mets, when the team lost Seaver, told the 33-year-old ace pitcher that too much money at this age was bad for him. George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees, said when firing manager Gene Michaels, that he felt like "a father scorned." During the strike, Angell explains that "what is going on here...is the same old psychodrama about American fathers...