Word: persist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...business disaffection with Carter did not begin with the explosion at Big Oil -and it would now persist even if the President had called the oilmen a group of public-spirited gentlemen. As Carter's energy program has been gutted in the Senate, as his much-touted tax-reform program remains unborn, as high inflation and high unemployment persist, many corporation bosses have come to see he President as someone who particularly unnerves them: an incompetent, or-at least vacillating, Chief Executive. In their view, Carter has tried to tackle too many major problems at once-energy, taxes, welfare...
...Armed Forces of National Liberation of Puerto Rico in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Newark, as well as in New York. The worst outrage: a 1975 lunchtime bombing of Manhattan's Fraunces Tavern that left four dead. Searching for reasons why the F.A.L.N. bombers have been able to persist, TIME Correspondent James Willwerth interviewed a former terrorist from a similar Puerto Rican independence group. Willwerth's report...
...personally involved with the drawn-out spectacle of a human being operating on an auto-destruct frequency. You find yourself reduced to the conclusion that the ingredient of empathy has come into play at some point during the vigil, even if the precise reasons accounting for your continued presence persist in eluding...
After Tuesday's hectic pace Van Vleck's life has calmed down again. But he says he is "still in a state of surprise"--which may persist until he arrives in Stockholm on December 10 to accept the most coveted of prizes...
...floor, but compliments come to an abrupt halt there. We see all the glamor and fame that filled the title character's moment in the spotlight, but Nureyev's Valention remains a distant figure, a romantic anachronism bursting forth with panache and charisma and little else. Russell seems to persist in the belief that audiences enjoy having their senses assaulted and will consider it entertainment; grotesques and caricatures dot the screen in Valentino, evoking some of Fellini's lesser films. The ambience of the Twenties is effectively recaptured by the film, but Valentino never gets around to addressing the ethos...