Word: persisted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same time one of the most oppressive countries in Communist Europe. Much to the dismay of Party Boss Erich Honecker, some 200,000 people have applied to live in West Germany. Although many of the applicants have lost their jobs and apartments, tradesmen, workers and professional people still persist in trying...
...week's end tempers were cooling. The union postponed its strike vote, and negotiations were proceeding smoothly. The AFL-CIO was determined to avoid a rerun of the embarrassing one-day walkout of part of its staff in 1970 (the issue then was wages). Yet tensions will persist within the AFL-CIO's walls -perhaps even after a new contract is signed. Complained one union chief: "This just goes to show that employers are the same everywhere...
...Select Committee on Assassinations was established last fall by the House of Representatives to make a fresh study of the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Despite a seemingly endless series of investigations, rumors, dark suspicions and public doubts persist about who actually shot Kennedy and King. Just last month a Gallup poll showed that 80% of the American people believe that both assassinations were conspiracies; some think the Mafia, the CIA, Cubans or other Communists killed Kennedy. Thus when retired Virginia Congressman Thomas Downing proposed that the assassinations be examined yet again, the House approved...
...doubts persist, although he is remarkably open and has been unusually accessible to journalists. Asked why people still have trouble figuring him out, Carter says, "I don't know. Sometimes I think people look too hard. They're looking for something that isn't there. I don't really think I'm that complex. I'm pretty much what I seem...
...will eventually polarize the nation at the expense of fraternity. He criticizes those who blast away at independent-minded attempts to counter this theory of discrimination. He tells them to take off their blinders and realize that liberty, specifically meritocracy, will always produce inequalities no matter how much people persist in attributing that inequality to discrimination. As usual, Glazer does not take into account the basic reason for the common belief that differences in equality are caused by discrimination: given the premise that the races are equal, how else can you explain the great disparity in income, education, and quality...