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The attack on Monday was in the village of Tuba-Zangariya, in Galilee, where calm had prevailed for years.
Background on Chad The authorities and the print media in Chad have what Reporters Without Borders describes as "a climate of permanent mistrust" which has prevailed for years.
Under longstanding Supreme Court decisions, children have a right to a public education regardless of their immigration status, and in New York, as in many other cities, a "don't ask, don't tell" approach to legal status has prevailed for years.
A series of takeover attempts in recent weeks has broken what Tony Cox of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, an investment bank, calls "the armed neutrality" that prevailed for years among the four big firms as they maintained their respective shares of the global market, which range from 9% for America's Air Products to 17% for France's Air Liquide.
Loans rose to 30% more than the trailers' wholesale value, double the premium that had prevailed for years.
Such a plan would create a situation not unlike that which prevailed for years around "Happy Birthday" — users paying the wrong party for the right to use a work for which the real rights holder is unknown.
Based on many years of observations, certain "circulation epochs" have been defined when the same type of circulation prevails for years or decades.
"The question is, which is going to prevail?" For years, Mr. Vallely and other experts believed that Vietnam's enterprising south would drag the more cautious, politically encrusted north into the global economy.
Investors are fleeing risk, cutting back spending and saving with a vengeance: The Commerce Department reported that the household savings rate in May was 6.9%, a 16-year high and a surge from the near-zero rate that had prevailed for several years.
The central pillar of Jim Crow was destroyed, and with it the regime of legal segregation that had prevailed for seventy years.
It is a way of understanding the golden age of growth that prevailed for twenty-five yeafterfter World War II and the subsequent slowdown.
