Word: prevails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aides persuaded the House to whoop through by heavy margins not only his raise-taxes, cut-spending budget plan but also his program to first spend an additional $16.3 billion to give an immediate boost to the economy. That the heavy Democratic majority in the House would prevail over even united Republican opposition had never been in doubt. That Clinton's lieutenants could prevent damaging defections by conservative Democrats was nowhere near so certain. A number of conservatives echoed G.O.P. arguments that the stimulus was unnecessary because the economy is recovering well on its own and harmful because the package...
...even if the companies prevail on the accounting standard, victory is unlikely to bring them any lasting peace. In an era of massive and painful corporate downsizing, richly paid executives are out of step with the times. And while they may win a battle or two, it is almost certain that they will have to settle for something less than the grand lucre that came their way in the days of Reagan and Bush...
Jackson stressed the importance of including all people in this "coalition" so that cultural diversity can prevail over the Nazis' "cultural cleansing...
...concluding his talk, Jackson said hope should prevail over fear, and negotiation should prevail over confrontation in Black-Jewish relations...
...Washington, "and the number of people we were reaching was going down." While there is no scale on which to calculate how much suffering is enough to justify unleashing the nation's armed forces, Somalia's horror pushed Bush out of his usual caution into a determination to prevail...