Word: persisted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...examination dreams, which often persist into old age. Suggests New York Psychoanalyst Dr. Charles Fisher: "In older people, they may have to do with the feeling of failing powers, helplessness or hopelessness." Other researchers believe that the dream implies the fear of failure to perform well in some specific current undertaking...
...highly unlikely return of abundant fuel, the U.S. could not indefinitely tolerate or afford the poisonous pollution, cost, congestion, racket and uglification of a transportation system based on carbon monoxide and concrete. Even if automobiles could be made to run on recycled bath water, such problems are likely to persist and proliferate...
Visible Targets. If the Arabs persist in their embargo, the emergency will bite Americans deeply in a month or so. Old routines in work and play will be disrupted, traveling will become a chore and the novelty of spartan indoor temperatures and reduced lighting will wear thin. Then the public will probably begin a search for scapegoats. The Administration will be high on everyone's list for its failure to foresee and prepare for the crisis. Oil companies will be another target of criticism, because they are so visible and profitable, and calls will rise for increased Government regulation...
...President has urged mainly voluntary restraints, but on tough steps like rationing he remains vague. For example, in his energy message two weeks ago, he said that if shortages persist, "it may become necessary-may become necessary-to take even stronger measures." Last week Nixon offered a ray of hope that those measures indeed may be avoided. He said that there is "a possibility of some change" in the Arab strategy of reducing the flow of oil to Europe, Japan and other nations. Indeed, Iraq is already pumping oil at full capacity again. Yet the Arabs remain firm in their...
...experience that when demonstrations fail, their leaders and participants, as well as any bystanders arrested by mistake, are likely to go to prison for a long time, to be tortured by their captors, and to have their careers and bones shattered by the military police. That students nevertheless persist in demanding justice and human rights should be a source of wonder and pride to students in this country and throughout the world...