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A piece calls the protests against the Diallo killing "a ludicrous moral pageant" and an attempt by the "prevailing ideological power structure" to delegitimize Mayor Giuliani in particular and conservative governance in general.
Translated into English, what the academics and bureaucrats are saying is that businesses can't hire all the computer specialists they want at prevailing rates.
But in Jordan, Mustafa Abu-Libdeh, editor of the business daily al-Aswaq , said that the prevailing calm in the country was testament to the stability of the state King Hussein had done so much to build.
The prevailing view is that the high growth of business mail reflects the healthy growth of the U.S. economy.
At his White House summit on youth violence this week, President Clinton summed up the prevailing wisdom about entertainment and its connection to the Littleton, Colo., murders.