Word: prevailing
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Technology shifts can be wrenching, but it's not as if telcos and their suppliers didn't know that wireless would eventually prevail in telephony. Yet unlike their new and younger rivals, Nortel, Lucent and other wire-line-equipment powers have found it difficult to take market share in next-generation technologies such as Internet telephony and wireless broadband. Recession has served, as it often does, to fast-forward a power struggle that promises to reshape forever how we communicate and consume media...
...field in its race, which also included Black and White’s C boat. Second-place Syracuse finished a whopping 14.9 seconds behind the Radcliffe, while the team’s B boat finished in fourth.Despite a late-charge, the Black and White lightweight Varsity Eight could not prevail over the No. 3 Stanford Cardinals on Saturday morning in No. 4 Radcliffe’s first home dual-meet of the season. It was the lightweights’ first loss of the season and drops their overall record to 3-1. The Varsity Eight had to overcome an early...
...home districts and states being summarily axed. Key programs on his chopping block include the Air Force's $350 million-a-copy F-22 Fighter, the Army's $160 billion Future Combat Systems - a network of ground and air vehicles - and the Navy's DDG 1000 Destroyer. To prevail, Gates is employing what those in uniform call TTPs - tactics, techniques and procedures...
...mailed by a spokesperson to TIME.com. As for Penn's performance in the 2008 presidential campaign, the former President insisted that the consultant had been a "great help" to his wife, adding, "In 2008, his polling was accurate and advice was helpful even though the campaign didn't prevail. As President Kennedy said, victory has a thousand fathers and defeat is an orphan. I remain grateful for his hard work and loyalty...
...decades after ignoring the results of its last polls, Burma's long-ruling junta has promised another electoral exercise next year, most likely by spring. Few doubt that the generals' henchmen will ensure that the opposition doesn't prevail as it did back in 1990, when the National League for Democracy (NLD) crushed the military's proxy party. (In a troubling precedent, a recent constitutional referendum received a credulity-straining 92% approval.) But the queries put to me during my recent visit got to the heart of a fundamental political dilemma: Is any election, even one so likely...