Word: persisted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nevertheless, fears of affirmative action turning into a quota system persist. Nathan M. Glazer, professor of Education and Social Structure, argued-a year and a half ago that in most cases hiring goals inevitably become hiring quotas, and he said earlier this month he stands by that position...
...diminish with time. Both have lives of their own to lead, Tricia as the wife of a young attorney, Julie as an editor of the Saturday Evening Post and wife of the bearer of a legendary name. But for their mother, the shock of re-entry may well persist. Though her husband's career denied her the more private life she would have preferred, his triumphs should have assured her of honors and deference. Now she has been deprived of even this satisfaction. Pat has lost both ways, and very soon she is bound to learn how Lady Bird...
...have been criticized in print. By a vote of 9 to 0, the court ruled the Florida statute unconstitutional because of "its intrusion into the function of editors." Decisions as to what is or is not published, the court said, cannot be dictated by Government. But other legal problems persist. This spring a committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors warned that press successes in Watergate would not diminish challenges by legislatures, law-enforcement officials and grand juries. Many journalists fear that Watergate has created a backlash against a press perceived as having grown too powerful...
...Without agrarian reform, the almost inhuman misery of the rural workers will persist," he has said. "Without banking reform, little will be done for the development of the country, and without fiscal reform, the rich will continue to grow richer while the poor will continue to suffer...
...include 13 white civilians, 102 black civilians, 45 Rhodesian and South African military men, and 311 guerrillas-20 of them killed last week. Three Rhodesian air force planes have been lost in the past two months. The government claims that all three losses were due to accidents, but rumors persist that a rebel missile accounted for one of the planes (a Canberra light bomber) and that rifle fire brought down the other two. The guerrillas get funds from the Organization of African Unity and from China and Russia, which also supply arms...