Word: clingingly
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...small chamber, where Mayor Humphrey presides over the other six members with enthusiastic informality. Her council includes two Armenians, one Hispanic and one African American. Mayor Humphrey sees the new $33 million city hall being constructed as a riposte to those who write off the downtown or who cling to the image of Fresno as an agrarian market town. Despite her claim about the place's Midwestern qualities, she sides with those who believe the city can meet its challenges only if it thinks in terms as cosmopolitan as its new population. The city hall is the very model...
...casualties of mining cannot be measured by injuries alone. Generations of young men were lured from the classroom into the mines, many of them barely able to read or write. Communities staked everything on King Coal, neglecting to diversify. And still they cling to it, with vain hopes that the men will be called back to work. But tens of thousands of mining jobs have been lost as the process of extracting coal from Appalachia's deep seams has been transformed by cheaper, automated methods and by the development of surface mines in the Western states. Of the 20 most...
Juan's experience in the United States (apparently Arenas had similar feelings upon escaping his native Cuba on the Mariel boat lift in 1980) has given him nothing to which his soul can cling. Everything is on the surface and artificial, it's all candy and fake, pearly-white smiles. This kind of empty sensation is similar to the feeling sparked effectively in the reader by Arenas' sparse, transitionless writing...
...concessions in the negotiations. Granted, that was before the coup, and the military was still throwing its weight around. Now many of the more obstreperous senior officers have been summarily retired. Still, there are plenty of people in Moscow -- not all of them in uniform -- who are desperate to cling to Soviet strategic nuclear strength as the last symbol of their country's superpower status. For that reason alone they will resist further cuts...
After millenniums of hunting and gathering in the forests of north Borneo, the few hundred Penans who still cling to nomadic ways find themselves besieged by the full force of the 20th century. Loggers have invaded their turf, which is part of Malaysia, scarring the land, felling fruit trees, killing game and polluting rivers. Missionaries vie for the Penans' souls, while development-minded officials disparage their existence as primitive...