Word: persisted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...born in the new homeland of a tribe of America's oldest people, the Mohawk Indians, who won a piece of state land at Ganienkeh, N.Y., after a three-year struggle. Indeed, both the nation's birth and marriage rates rose in 1977. Though serious problems persist in the U.S., a sense of well-being and restored community pervades...
...former employer muscling in. Says he: "I told Carter Hawley their timing was inappropriate, but they kept pushing." The day the C.H.H. bid was announced, Field filed a suit charging that the merger would violate antitrust law, a standard move in takeover battles. Carter Hawley seems determined to persist, to the point of upping its bid if necessary. Analysts see no way Field can ward off an eventual merger -if not with C.H.H., then with any one of several other big department store companies...
...that "in 1978, there will be substantial tax reductions and combined with that will be an adequate proposal for tax reform." Unfortunately, he felt compelled to add that the tax reform would be "comprehensive." That only muddied the waters, for many a businessman concluded that meant the President would persist in his hopes to eliminate or sharply reduce preferential tax treatment for capital gains, and a number of other benefits...
Even a small leak would release radioactive waste that would persist in the environment, causing cancer and birth defects into the indefinite future, she added...
...growth of the money supply. In October the nation's money stock grew at an average annual rate estimated at 12%. That pace, if continued, could indeed be inflationary?yet the White House fears still higher interest would damage the recovery. That creates a nasty dilemma that will probably persist for some time...