Word: prevails
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...struggle for a tolerant society -- not only one in which the big racial injustices are cured but one in which the strong do not prey on the weak, the beautiful do not insult the ugly and the thin do not prevail over the fat -- is a worthy goal. But neither resources nor public sympathy is limitless. Treating the discrimination against someone who is fat alongside that of someone who is a paraplegic is part of an effort by special-interest groups to make all suffering equal so that all remedies will be. It is a trend that would make...
Still, this year's congressional session proves that public opinion and a politically savvy President can prevail -- though only after a succession of hairbreadth escapes. Clinton, says a senior White House official, is "a guy who lies down in front of trains with great frequency and gets up at the last ( minute every time." Every time in 1993, that is; it is going to be a tough act to keep repeating...
...which aim to reduce the perceived Eurocentric bias of U.S. education. The ideological debate about multicultural education, brewing for years on college campuses, does not seem to have leached into primary and secondary schools, where math, science, geography, etc., are still regarded as important. Nonetheless, vexing but essential questions prevail: How are students who know no English to be taught? Must they, in the process, sacrifice their ethnic or cultural heritage...
Because truth will prevail. Here's a more promising argument: We should be tolerant because if we suppress controversial or repugnant opinions or experiments in living, we could very well be depriving ourselves of ideas that are truer or better than those opinions and habits we hold now. We should by no means go so far as relativists and skeptics in asserting that there is no truth to be discovered. But we should admit that as individuals, we certainly have no monopoly on the truth and could be wrong in our opinions. We should therefore be open-minded...
...course, the fastest computer can't play good chess if the software lacks "intelligence." But more processing power certainly means a better chance for the machine to prevail...