Word: permanente
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The permanent agreement Heaney reached with Harvard in 1984 exempts him from teaching fall semesters.
"To be durable, like China, all that the North Korean leadership needs is an ability to distinguish between the permanent and the transitional," he said.
"The British government has reduced it to a game of semantics. It isn't a game of Scrabble," he said. "If I said, 'Yes, the cease-fire is permanent,' London would have asked, 'Yes, but is it complete?'"
"The right to silence, freedom of speech, the right to a jury, the right even to an education in the language of Irish--all of these are denied us by the British government. We are in a state of permanent emergency."
Last year, the Dead sold 1.5 million tickets for their semi-permanent concert tour, and this is from a band that has not released new material in almost five years.