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The principles enshrined in the International Accounting Standards-to be adopted by all EU listed companies by 2005-being more general, with substance prevailing over form, are more easily adaptable to financial innovation than US accounting standards.

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But what my research has shown me is that experts tend on the whole to form very rigid camps, that within these camps, a dominant perspective emerges that often silences opposition, that experts move with the prevailing winds, often hero-worshipping their own gurus.

For hundreds of years, the prevailing orthodoxy, the accepted truth, was that God the Father, the Creator, is unchanging and therefore by definition cannot feel pain or sadness.

The pregnant woman's diet and stress level in particular provide important clues to prevailing conditions like a finger lifted to the wind.

In October of 1903, the prevailing opinion of expert aerodynamicists was that maybe in 10 million years we could build an aircraft that would fly.

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