Word: prevails
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...government moved to have the pazo officially declared a "property of cultural interest," a category that carries protective status. Carmen, Leticia and the rest of Franco's descendants have a month to file an appeal, but the government is confident that it will prevail by the end of the year. "As much for its uniqueness as for its cultural and symbolic significance, the pazo has all the characteristics necessary to obtain the maximum degree of protection," said the councilwoman in charge of cultural heritage, Anxela Bugallo. Once the compound is awarded protected status, the Francos will have to request government...
...subscriber fees. Thus Paramount, a classic provider of such programming, is really not critical to this new venture, and Smith says Bell Atlantic has no intention of entering the fray. For their part, Barry Diller's allies contend that they don't need the backing of Bell Atlantic to prevail in the Paramount battle. Diller is about to add an additional $500 million or more to his war chest from Cox Enterprises; he already has $2 billion of bank financing on top of a combined $1 billion commitment from Liberty Media and Comcast cable, Liberty's major partner...
...Smart, the iconic 1960s television series in which Mel Brooks and Buck Henry started satirizing James Bond almost before he made his first smirking wisecrack to Miss Moneypenny. One dared wanly to hope that the loose, slightly impoverished air of that funny, curiously memorable little enterprise might somehow prevail in our era of more grandiose imagery...
...some seem to be talking about a full-on insurrection. Look, those are just speculations. The people have no capacity to resist an armed dictatorship, and the dictatorship is not yet ready to negotiate. So I think the only thing with such a stalemate is that the people will prevail. That's the only thing...
...will they prevail? By continuing to resist the regime ... By making sure that the international community isolates it, by making sure the economy is not sustainable. That way, the regime's pillars of support will realize how futile it is to continue...