Word: clingingly
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...undergraduates, willing to swallow the changes in coffee shop flavor, still cling to the cafe cult...
...Clinton's first challenge is to cling fast to black voters, who are among the Democratic Party's most loyal followers but who have turned out in far lower numbers this year than in 1988, when Jesse Jackson was on the primary ballot. Clinton will almost certainly reinforce his appeal to blacks more than he might otherwise have intended...
...class are not the same as those of the poor. As a result, skin color alone is no longer a reliable guide to blacks' political attitudes, which range from the antiwar radicalism of Oakland Congressman Ron Dellums to the conservativism of Stanford University economist Thomas Sowell. Yet many blacks cling to an old tradition of rallying behind any fellow black who comes under attack regardless of what he stands for. An emotionally wrenching case in point: the widespread support among Southern blacks for Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas after his elevation to the high court was threatened by Anita Hill...
...experts view Iacocca's failure to groom a successor from within as perhaps his greatest managerial shortcoming. "Chrysler should never have gone outside the company," observes Eugene Jennings, a management professor at Michigan State University. Even after Iacocca nominally retires, predicts Jennings, he will try to cling to power through his chairmanship of the executive committee...
...daily lives, we believe in a great many small secular millenniums; one of them is success. Romance is a kind of millennium too, and we cling to it with amazing fidelity, despite sexual freedom and divorce -- the triumph, as Dr. Johnson said about second marriages, of hope over experience...