Word: persisted
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...very basic and key questions about the life cycle persist. Does the theory apply to women--from the beginning life cycle research has virtually ignored them. Does it apply to non-Western cultures, to earlier historical epochs? Levinson suggests it does, but has no real basis for this claim. And most importantly, as one is left shouting in frustration at roommates and friends after reading this book--Why? Why does life work this way, what is the motor of the changes of eras and developmental tasks, what causes the cycle to occur? Is the engine of change biological or social...
Father Dudko is encouraged by the founding in 1976 of the Christian Committee for the Defense of Believers' Rights, though Father Gleb Yakunin and other leaders have reportedly been threatened with prosecution if they persist in their efforts. Dudko also takes heart from what he sees as a religious revival. "There is a spiritual crisis in this country, a vacuum that has to be filled," he says. "A woman came to me and asked for her child to be baptized even though she is not a Christian. Why? She replied, 'To fill the emptiness in my child...
...enemy here is bureaucracy. When someone asks why disparities persist in the handling of Harvard and Radcliffe financial aid programs, administrators' fingers all seem to point to a different level of the hierarchy. The Student Employment Office is responsible for the day-to-day management of the work-study program, but University Hall and Radcliffe administrators have input into policy decisions, and the Office of Fiscal Services fills out the applications for grants. The Financial Aid Office determines a student's need for both employment and loans, and a separate loan office gets into the act with the NDSL program...
...they reach an accord, it will have to be ratified by the Senate before taking effect. But fears persist on Capitol Hill that the Soviets have underhandedly violated the old SALT agreement and cannot be trusted to keep a new one. Indeed, former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird accused Moscow of exactly that in a recent article in the Reader's Digest titled, Arms Control: The Russians Are Cheating...
...city would try its best to keep it alive, and other ranking state political leaders also pledged to join in rescue efforts. Thus it was possible that somebody, somehow, would manage to extend the deadline. Yet it was inconceivable that the Music Hall could ever be revived to persist as what it once was. Nobody around can bring back the times and the taste on which its success relied...