Word: prevails
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...expect the insurgents to throw their worst at us, and judging from their previous conduct we can expect the week of elections to be violent and bloody. As hard as it will be to bare any additional American casualties, we should not despair. We can, and I believe will, prevail in Iraq but only if we fortify ourselves and realize that next week might very likely be the most destabilized time seen since the end of major combat operations. Changing a country from a totalitarian dictatorship to a democracy is a radical step, and the first election will...
Dotan said he is confident that Tegam will prevail in the case...
...outcome is far from a sure thing. Enterprise executives say their deep network of relationships in the replacement market and the company's service-focused culture will help it prevail. "Competition isn't a bad thing," says Jim Runnels, senior vice president of rental at Enterprise. "I've seen a lot of companies come and go. One of the reasons we've done as well as we have is that customer service has been our primary focus, and that isn't something that just happens. You have to work very hard at that." Clearly, Hertz doesn't have an easy...
...race that was fought largely over whether Ukraine would pursue Western-style reforms and closer ties to Europe or stick with state control and a tight relationship with Russia, coming that far was a remarkable achievement for Yushchenko. But even if he does ultimately prevail at the ballot box, that doesn't mean the crisis is over. Rather like red-state-blue-state America, Ukraine remains a divided and distrustful nation, with the Russian-speaking, industrialized eastern part of the country backing Yanukovych and the more nationalistic, agricultural west wanting Yushchenko. The two camps are as polarized as the reporting...
...month ago as Iran's Vice President. "They kicked us out of the political field, arguing that we were soft and weak," he told TIME last week. "They do not want to lose the backing of the minority of Iranians who still support them." As long as the mullahs prevail, so may Iran's quarter-century-old confrontation with the West, only now with nuclear weapons in play. --With reporting by Andrew Purvis/Vienna