Word: prevails
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Durkin fired back with a second-set victory and a 10-8 tiebreak win to prevail, 3-6, 6-4, 1-0 (8), but O’Riain, who had led 6-1 in the second set tiebreak, allowed that to slip away as Kim took the match by a score...
...there a way to predict which outside firms will prevail in Russia? Christopher Weafer, chief strategist at Alfa Bank in Moscow, talks about Russia as a "triple- layer" economy: on the top is the nation's fiscal strength, on the bottom the roiling consumer sector (mobile-phone subscriptions notched up another record in March, and Ford sold one-third more cars in the first quarter of this year than it did a year ago). But Weafer cautions about the middle layer: energy and other areas that could be construed by the Kremlin as being of strategic value. There, investment risk...
...murdered eight young women a generation ago has languished on death row since 1987. For much of that time, he has been begging the state to execute him. But in a region that hasn't put anyone to death in almost 45 years, Ross can't seem to prevail...
...declaring their sorrows in Spanish and an orchestra heavy on bandoneons (a type of accordion), and the marquee might as well say DISASTER. Indeed, when such a show was first mentioned to Choreographer Juan Carlos Copes, he answered, reasonably enough, "You must be crazy." But reason does not always prevail on Broadway, where near sellout audiences at the Mark Hellinger Theater have turned Tango Argentina into the season's surprise hit. Says Co-Producer Mel Howard: "There's obviously a little bit of magic going...
...viewers that the new restrictions made it difficult to confirm their stories. In Johannesburg, the Foreign Correspondents Association strongly denounced the restrictions. The F.C.A. warned that forcing the media to operate within such stringent guidelines could create "a news vacuum in which rumors and distortions, from whatever quarter, will prevail...