Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...white births to domestic black and Hispanic births, may reduce the proportion of European-descended stock in this country from the present 80% to 60% by 2080. The upshot could be social "divisiveness and turmoil." All of which, he believes, raises the key question: "Over time, will Western values prevail...
...House accord, hastily put together in 15 days, was announced with great fanfare two weeks ago. Three days later the Central American leaders signed their deal, first presented by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez in February. Speaker Wright abruptly shifted ground, saying the homegrown Central American accord must prevail and that the White House proposal would be "merely supportive." Though Reagan initially gave his blessing to the Guatemala plan as well, he did not anticipate the fire storm of reaction from his conservative supporters, who were already appalled that the President had countenanced discussions with the Sandinistas...
...authority by focusing on the needs and aspirations of its citizens rather than by pursuing expansionist aims. In addition, the Soviets would need to abandon the notion that their security depends on threatening the security of others. Lenin's old dictum of kto-kogo (who-whom) -- or who will prevail over whom -- would have to give way to a concept of live and let live...
...said by and large you don't win against the police department. They didn't understand that I knew I could beat them on my own turf, the media. Most people who can communicate, communicate. Those who can't, carry guns. I thought surely at some point sanity would prevail. But they would not give up, and so it went all the way to the Supreme Court...
...Sullivan, the Justices held that vigorous comment about public officials' performances of their duties was vitally deserving of protection. So it added to the traditional elements of libel -- falsity and damage to reputation -- a third factor involving the journalist's state of mind: "actual malice." In order to prevail in court, public officials would have to show that a reporter knew the story to be false or showed "reckless disregard of whether it was false." That provision turned out to have some unforeseen negative consequences for media defendants. It has allowed plaintiffs to review journalists' notes, internal memorandums, video-tape...