Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rather than with the demands of certain senators and representatives. And Congress could fill a gap in our foreign policy-making that over the long run would prevent crises in Panama and El Salvador from arising in the first place. When America moves in the international arena, unity must prevail so that our determination and purpose will not be questioned by our adversaries or by those we try to help...
...found it difficult to recognize the Faculty, in any setting, acting as a body. What seems to prevail is a state of segregation: of senior ranks from junior; of junior ranks from the tutorial corps; and of department from department (this last despite the coincidence of activity in strong programs such as History and Literature...
...advisers. No such as Robert McNamara, Dean Rusk, McGeorge Bundy, Theodore Sorenson, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., have spread the view that Kennedy's skillful use of flexible response--meeting Soviet moves with an equal amount of force--and the American superiority in conventional strength allowed the United States to prevail. But the transcripts of October 27, 1962 reveal a different picture...
...chief sponsor: Attorney General Edwin Meese. After watching Ginsburg during the young lawyer's two years of service in the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, Meese became convinced that he was a true believer in the conservative cause, and lobbied hard for his appointment. Meese had to prevail over White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker, who preferred that the President nominate moderate, mainstream, conservative Judge Anthony Kennedy, an eleven-year veteran of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court in California...
...paper: "The two must remember that a split in the opposition party means the breakup of power, resulting in self- destruction, for which both must assume political responsibility." The admonition, however, failed to impress the two Kims last week as they waged their campaigns, each confident that he will prevail once the ballots are counted...