Word: prevailing
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...credibility in negotiating treaties and other foreign policy initiatives, and raises doubts about whether the U.S. is capable of providing leadership." Following the CTBT defeat, the President came out swinging, telling the world that he was engaged in a titanic struggle with "isolationist" Republicans, and that he planned to prevail. That was unlikely to reassure Washington?s friends abroad; the fact that the Senate debacle occurred when partisan skirmishing created a momentum that even Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott was unable to stop suggested that there was chaos in the wheelhouse of the world?s last superpower...
...decision-making from the grip of HMOs and hands it back to the patients and their doctors. In most states, HMOs are protected from liability in cases where treatment is withheld or delayed in the interest of economy ?- although if congressional Democrats, led by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), prevail in upcoming policy debates, the insurance companies? medical decisions will be fair game. Fierce anti-HMO public opinion and the AMA?s fat checkbook are making patients? rights more politically attractive than ever, and despite concerns that opening HMOs to expansive (and expensive) litigation would raise insurance costs, preliminary data...
...would be the youngsters from New Mexico (5-11), who would prevail over Harvard...
...might prevail in the Reform Party's superbout is anyone's guess. Conventional wisdom says that while Buchanan's hawkishness on trade helps get him in the door, he may have trouble explaining to libertarian-minded reformers why he opposes abortion. But conventional wisdom may not apply in Reformland. After all, Ventura has managed to become the party's leading officeholder while being a free trader--something that puts him at odds with a central tenet of the party's platform. Although the winner remains uncertain, so do the candidates. Beatty is said to favor running for the Democratic nomination...
Pressed by Lauer to predict which of his daughters would prevail in the Open, his refusal to answer was as full of protective affection as of cuteness and tact. (He said, "A Williams.") Earlier in the week, when informed of Outrageous Statement No. 10,000 that her dad had made, Serena, who won the whole shebang, rolled her eyes slightly heavenward, the way that only a normally dad-mortified daughter would...