Word: prevails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's momentum faltered in the second game as the Eagles' outside hitters overcame a shaky Crimson defense to prevail...
With Democrats holding a 55-45 majority in the Senate, Republicans can ill-afford any defections from their own ranks if Bush is to prevail in the first high-stakes political showdown of his five-week-old presidency...
...growing lands of the U.S. Midwest shifted north across the | border, and the Soviet Union might welcome a warmer, more hospitable Siberia. But while the broad outlines of a hotter world are easy to draw, more specific projections are riddled with uncertainty, since the regional weather patterns that would prevail are largely unpredictable. If Canada becomes much dryer than it is now, for example, higher temperatures will not help much...
...must face the harsh reality that if the region's current economic conditions prevail, the outlook ahead is for more poverty, more instability, more violence. The U.S. might spearhead an international consortium of aid that would be applied to social reform and economic growth. The key here is to address the debilitating poverty that is endemic to the region. Only then is there hope of starving popular support for Central America's Communist insurgencies...
Their logic did not prevail against the N.R.A.'s cold cash. Collectively, the Congressmen who voted to doom the waiting period have received $1,167,908 from the gun lobby in the past five years. The 70% of Americans who support tighter gun controls are rarely as passionate, vocal or generous...