Word: prevails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then ignored and quickly forgotten. The question of women in the military is dealt with in similar manner. The writers limply play with that one by making Murray's and Ramis's girlfriends military policewomen, but they might as well be Playboy bunnies in khaki. Hollywood sensibilities prevail...
...this Rockies retreat has another resource, and its presence has touched off a classic preservation-vs.-progress scrap. The issue: should the interests of a small group, righteous as its cause may be, prevail over other interests that may affect the well-being of far more people, even that of the whole country? The resource is molybdenum (moly, as friend and foe both call it), a strategic metal used not only to strengthen steel but to make fertilizer, rubber, lubricants, plastics and paints. Just three miles from Crested Butte's Main Street, deep inside 12,414-ft. Mount Emmons...
...have seen the tragic consequences of improper formula mixing. I am outraged that the Administration has allowed the interests of the manufacturers to prevail and has refused to support the proposed restrictions on the advertising and marketing of formula...
...with it a half-decade of diplomatic labor. Following the Israeli attack, in fact, Egyptian Foreign Minister Butros Ghali-despite Cairo's antagonism toward Damascus ever since Camp David-dispatched a blunt warning to Jerusalem: "In the event of an all-out military action, Arab solidarity will prevail over the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty...
Despite the responsibilities of co-captain, she relates that the good still prevail as much as the hard work does in practice. "At the Ivy tournament we had our rooms ransacked by the squad from Brown--they took items and knocked over furniture. We decided to get even and cream them: not only on the field the next day but also in their rooms that night. We sneaked into their rooms and sprayed whipped cream all over them. As we left, a few members of their team managed to catch us in the elevators, and took the spray cans away...