Word: persisted
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...urge closer screening of foreign investments and possibly even compulsory Canadian shareholding of 51% or more in some local subsidiaries of non-Canadian corporations. That is hardly the sign of friendly capitulation that U.S. negotiators are impatiently awaiting from Canada. Trudeau said last week that his government planned to persist in scheduling new trade talks. Even so, the chances are unfortunately strong that U.S.-Canadian trade relations will grow still worse before they get better...
Robert Coles questions why Agee did not see through rationalization that allowed those three families, and so many like them, to persist with their particularly Faulknerian sense of endurance. Is Agee's ignoring of their rationalizations symptomatic of his prejudice surmounted? Is, in short, Agee's extraordinary, and lyrical compassion a feat of overcoming, or is it the bleeding of a liberal heart? If the answer is the first of these, and I suspect it is, then Let Us Now Praise is a remarkable study of the blindspot in a bigotry overcome, that is, its embarrassment to condemn, where condemnation...
...members of the U.S. Attorney's office, Robert Morvillo and John Tigue Jr., consented to talk to Swiss authorities about leniency. But first Morvillo wanted to know one thing: did Irving intend to persist in his story that he had met with Hughes? Nessen stepped out into the hall to talk to Irving. When he returned, he said: "You won't have to call Hughes. There were no meetings with Hughes." "All right," said Morvillo, "but Irving should know that we'll break his balls before the grand jury if he says he met with Hughes...
...realities of life in the land of Mao. Despite the social upheaval created by the revolution, there still is much of the old Middle Kingdom in China today. Although Mandarin is established as the official language, the nation's 50 major dialects and more than 1,000 variants persist in daily use. The Chinese have lost nothing in their devotion to the pleasure of the table; most foreign visitors return home several pounds heavier, spouting memories of exquisite meals. Women have been officially liberated, and are equal before the law with men; yet some marriages are still formally arranged...
...appeared in 1954, "The Song of Roland written by Roland himself, with all that suggests of simplification and even of changing the facts." In Memoirs of Hope, written between De Gaulle's abdication in 1969 and his death 18 months later, the simplification and the changing of facts persist, but the blasts from Roland's horn have grown feebler...