Word: prevails
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...siding in our favor.”Experts weren’t surprised that FAIR spurned the statutory argument, since Congress could just amend the law again. A Philadelphia attorney who had filed a brief supporting the government’s case, Howard J. Bashman, noted that FAIR had prevailed in the Third Circuit Court by arguing on free-speech, not statutory, grounds. Laurence H. Tribe ‘62, the Harvard professor who organized the filing of his colleagues’ friend-of-the-court brief, said their statutory argument appeared to be doomed yesterday. “It?...
...It’s clear that Rumsfeld is going to win and that the Department of Defense will prevail,” said Tribe, the Loeb university professor at Harvard, who has argued more than three-dozen cases before the high court...
...painted the grill and brightened the colors and included some murals as opposed to the drab green that had been there,” said Ian P. Lindblom ’07, who helped with the Dunster renovations. And, in a multi-Grille University, some elements of competition prevail, too. “Anything that sets the Grille apart will translate into better profits and better publicity for Grille,” O’Brien said. The Eliot Grille’s new paint job is slated to be finished this week. Furniture and decorations will be coming...
...town and as the institutions surrounding job placement changed under the Howard government, the innovator started to work the system. As supportive elders held off the "radical and ratbag elements," Estens turned the AES into a crusade. Perhaps a non-indigenous person is the only one who can prevail in places that have competing Aboriginal tribes and a redneck underbelly. "I advised Dick not to go into it," says friend and legal counsel Roger Butler about the personal financial liabilities Estens has had to endure ever since. "It's fortunate that this mission was undertaken when his farms could stand...
...environmental disaster that has unfolded over the past two weeks in the northeast Chinese city of Harbin has the makings of a great story: explosion at large petrochemical plant releases toxic pollutants into major river, threatening millions; local officials attempt cover-up; panic ensues; wiser voices prevail; corrective action is taken. Unfortunately, the real story remains largely untold. China's rapid economic development, endemic corruption and highly decentralized political system have produced a life-threatening environmental crisis for hundreds of millions of Chinese...