Word: persisted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is no guarantee that the peace will persist. At week's end, the dollar declined slightly again, and a new gold rush could start at any time. Industrial demand for the metal is rising faster than supply. Existing stocks are so small -according to one estimate, the entire trading supply would fit nicely on the stage of Radio City Music Hall-that speculators can drive the price up or down almost at will. And there is always the danger that in the ensuing monetary turmoil, some government will conclude that its currency is floating to an unrealistically high...
...bulging money bags with a nervous ambivalence-as both a promise of much-needed investments and a threat to their control of local enterprises. Lately, Vesco's name has been linked with almost every sizable business deal in the country. Despite Vesco's denials, rumors persist that through various fronts he has bought a gas station network from Gulf Oil Corp., a big piece of San Jose's Royal Dutch Hotel, the El Molina coffee plantation, and a share of the anti-Figueres newspaper, La Nacion. There even are wild rumors that he has linked up with...
...there could ever have existed this particular streak in women," she says with a laugh. "It is most chivalrous of them. But what annoys me just a little is that reviewers even now, after all the years I have fought and pleaded and written about the cause of women, persist in picturing me as an enemy of my own sex. Every time a woman opens her mouth about another woman she is supposed to be giving her final view about her sex. This is, of course, unconscious male chauvinism...
...only a few gallons per customer and that autos, buses, police cars and fire trucks across the nation would be stranded for lack of fuel. Suddenly, some day seems ominously close. Many parts of the country are, in fact, short of gasoline and diesel fuel. The scarcities threaten to persist, at least in some localities, throughout the peak summer driving season...
...glaringly contradictory perceptions by administrators and faculty of Federal affirmative action requirements may help to explain why these inequities persist...