Word: prevails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Iraq, which had mounted virtually no defense to the unprecedented allied air onslaught, had expressed eagerness for the ground confrontation. The allies indicated they expected to prevail, but agreed that a land clash would be a costly and bloody...
...ruthlessness gap continues to favor the aggressor. A leader who will stop at nothing tends, naturally, to go a long way against adversaries who observe certain restraints and conventions of decency. The law of the jungle is called that because the beastly threaten, by their sheer beastliness, to prevail over the civilized. That is why, as Saddam's neighbors await his next move, they don their gas masks...
...still too early to say whether the Pentagon's grand doctrine of fighting superior numbers with superior technology will ultimately prevail. It may yet be possible to foil the world's most sophisticated -- and expensive -- weapons with countermeasures, some of which are literally dirt cheap. They include burning smoke pots to deflect heat-seeking missiles, draping targets with pictures of bomb craters to discourage further attack, and hunkering down in caves and sand dunes to wait out the blitz. In the end, no electronic marvel is going to liberate Kuwait. That is a job that will probably fall...
...second-guess Bush for not taking the other path. It is even more futile to wonder how the Middle East might look after an allied victory. Unintended consequences are a by-product of any action. The only certainty is that nothing could be worse than for Saddam to prevail. The possibility of other bad actors filling a postwar power vacuum will simply have to be met later on a case-by-case basis, or perhaps through the eventual convocation of a peace conference that would address both the Israeli- Palestinian conflict and the region's massive overarmament...
...friendly offer, its suitor shocked the business world once more by launching a hostile takeover attempt. In a face- to-face showdown with AT&T's board members in New York City, NCR management vowed to resist. But industry analysts generally believe that the big telecommunications firm will ultimately prevail, strengthening NCR in the long run. Says Maria Lewis of Shearson Lehman Bros.: "AT&T would make an ideal corporate parent." Still, the deal carries enormous financial risks for AT&T, which had tried to build a computer business from scratch, avoiding large acquisitions. "AT&T will triumph...