Word: prevails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...imagine living or doing something. I can hardly imagine living without hope. As for the future of the world: there is a colorful spectrum of possibilities, from the worst to the best. What will happen, I do not know. Hope forces me to believe that those better alternatives will prevail, and above all it forces me to do something to make them happen...
Shamateurism is finally over. With professionals competing, will ever more glitz and hype prevail...
...human drama, whether played out in history books or headlines, is often not just a confusing spectacle but a spectacle about confusion. The big question these days is, Which political forces will prevail, those stitching nations together or those tearing them apart...
Here is one optimist's reason for believing unity will prevail over disunity, integration over disintegration. In fact, I'll bet that within the next hundred years (I'm giving the world time for setbacks and myself time to be out of the betting game, just in case I lose this one), nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century -- "citizen of the world" -- will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st...
...being discarded. "The golden days of baseball are over," says Gerald Scully, University of Texas economist and author of The Business of Major League Baseball. "The game is entering a new era of fiscal conservatism, and that could spell big trouble for labor-management relations. Unless cooler heads prevail, the 1993 baseball season could be in jeopardy...