Word: constantly
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Even so, Asinamali!, for example, has been under constant threat. Apparently its angry art -- including a dead-on description of fire and bloodshed in a township attack -- too closely shadows life. One night, at a performance outside Durban, two busloads of counterrevolutionary blacks, armed with guns, spears and bush knives, drove up to the auditorium. They were looking for Ngema. The playwright was not in attendance, he recalls, "and the actors escaped death by inches, while the audience fled into the streets." The promoter of the company, says Ngema, was hacked to death...
...July, their existence was kept secret until last week at her request because he was still involved in undercover work. Gotti's attorney, Bruce Cutler, called the last-minute disclosure "outrageous," insisting that the evidence should have been shown to defense attorneys months ago. "There has been a constant attempt by the Government to try Mr. Gotti by ambush," said Cutler. "They are not going to succeed." Nevertheless, the Government obviously hopes the tapes will prove that the most damaging witness against Gotti is the boss himself...
Even cocaine use has evened out. Though some 22 million Americans have felt the euphoric tug of its 20-minute high, the number of "current users" (those who have taken the drug in the past 30 days) has remained constant since 1979, at about 4.3 million. "Drugs come and go," says Donald Ian Mcdonald of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, "and cocaine has seen its period of social acceptability and of harmlessness put behind us now. I'd guess we'll see a relative improvement in the number of young people willing to try cocaine. Certainly...
Yamani urged all oil-producing nations to prevent constant fluctuations in world oil prices by collectively establishing a price structure based on the long-term equilibrium between supply and demand...
...garments in a budget-price department store, to earn money to buy classically cut clothes at Manhattan's Brooks Bros. In his high school yearbook, Lauren confidently listed his ambition as "millionaire." The entry was a gag, he claims today, but his brother Jerry remembers that Ralph had a "constant urge to make something happen. He was always reaching for more...