Word: persisted
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...today that President Clinton will address the nation from the Oval Office next Monday evening in an effort to garner public support for the military operation. "But he will have a high hurdle to jump," says Thompson, "given the length of time that we've allowed the slaughter to persist and the general lack of interest in the United States over the Balkan theater." Congressional hearings about the troop deployment are scheduled to begin next week...
...with Israel, and little progress has been made in Syrian-Israeli peace talks since they began in 1991. "Syria's stand toward the peace process is fixed and it is still sincere to the issue of just and comprehensive peace in the region," the Tishrin daily said. "Syria will persist with this path regardless of this or that incident." In Lebanon, many cheered Rabin's death. Palestinian refugees forced over the past several decades from Israel burned the Israeli flag and an effigy of the Israeli Prime Minister even as he was buried. Mohammed Zahhar, a leader of Hamas, told...
...still they persist, even in freezing weather in New Hampshire's North Country, where winter temperatures usually do not exceed the state's number of votes in the Electoral College...
Lobbyists have charged for years that D'Amato and his staff use crude and even threatening fund-raising tactics, drawing explicit links between contributions and pending legislation in a way that's prohibited by federal law. The charges, first leveled in a 1986 Wall Street Journal article, persist today. Two lobbyists, who insist on anonymity because they fear losing access to D'Amato, have told TIME that D'Amato staff members solicited contributions from them this year during conversations about pending legislation. "It's raw; it's distasteful," one of the lobbyists says. "Al's guys reach through the phone...
...lately also cut down on tropical storms, says Gray. Strong winds that accompanied this prolonged dry spell swept rain clouds away from the Sahel and sheared the tops off storm systems that might eventually have become hurricanes. Now that the drought has eased, these storms are more likely to persist and grow...