Word: persist
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...influence they brought with them to forge a just peace and an equitable enfranchisement of all Southern citizens (including women, Ms. Kerrigan), they ensured that the bitterness which festered throughout the occupation would erupt once they and the federal troops left. Over 125 years later, that bitterness seems to persist, rearing its ugly head not only in the South, but in places all over the country--like Los Angeles, for instance...
...late 1960s, even European allies had denounced U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The negative consequences for America's reputation in the Third World still persist today...
Contributing to these efforts to dominate are old cultural patters that persist despite changes in the law. Among the most pernicious of these are beliefs about the acceptability of force in sexual intimacy. Renee Landers '77, Professor of Law at Boston College, reported in the Radcliffe Quarterly about a recent study of 1700 sixth- through ninth-grade students in Rhode Island. Despite our laws to the contrary and despite the general improvement in understanding about women's rights in society, 65 percent of the boys and 57 percent of the girls responded affirmatively to the question of whether...
Even alarmists concede that newspapers will persist in some form for a long time. Says analyst John Morton of the consultants Lynch Jones & Ryan: "There is still no cheaper or more economic way to deliver a mass amount of news to a mass audience." But in a business accustomed to high profit, a slight slippage can result in cutbacks of coverage. Some editors predict that newspapers will become repackagers, rather than originators, of information, dropping costly foreign bureaus and investigative projects in favor of wire- service copy. Other editors argue that what makes newspapers marketably different is depth and detail...
Even so, real or imagined unfairness in trade will persist, as will visceral fears of one's country being overtaken and bought up by foreigners. Fighting protectionism, the creed of economic know-nothings, in the U.S. and elsewhere, may be the greatest challenge to American leadership, and also its greatest opportunity. A special advantage is that the U.S., both an Atlantic and a Pacific power, has closer ties to Europe and Japan than they have to each other...