These are macro plays where you have to be comfortable with their corporate accounting, currency and the prevailing party in power.

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The Saving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes Act would give courts more power to award reasonable attorney fees to the prevailing party.

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Under this section, a judge may award the prevailing party fees and costs if the court dismisses the case as a matter of law prior to evidence being presented.

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As for his own party, Clarke believes that with a prevailing wind - of which the fuel crisis was just the most recent evidence - things are looking up.

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The prevailing attitude among ordinary citizens was mild puzzlement at why President Hosni Mubarak and his National Democratic Party, which have ruled together for 26 years, should bother to persist in going through democratic motions.

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Never has the prevailing bias of the media been so closely aligned with the ideological aims and political interests of the party in power.

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