Word: persisted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most difficult alternative to evaluate is extinction. Panhandlers could vanish entirely if no means exists for their sustenance. Many social planners would doubtlessly rush to embrace this possibility. Without cash and without a way to easily transfer material goods, beggars would have no good reason to persist in their appeals in the streets. Passers-by could only offer sympathy ("Brother, can you spare a smile...), or perhaps a hot-dog purchased electronically from a nearby vendor. The newspapers sold by homeless people would probably have sufficient capital to sell electronically through some central sidewalk sites, but even that form...
Sooner or later, though, it happens, or has throughout the more than 40 years that I have been writing about American business. Every decade has its characteristic folly, but the basic cause is the same: people persist in believing that what has happened in the recent past will go on happening into the indefinite future, even while the ground is shifting under their feet...
...other option is to turn the full force of Russian firepower and numerical superiority on Chechnya, resume the assault on Grozny and persist in it until the city is conquered, however brutal and bloody. In fact, at week's end Russian shells had set the presidential palace in Grozny ablaze and troops were reportedly massing for a new offensive -- this time to be led by specially trained spetsnaz forces rather than the hastily assembled and ill- prepared conscript units...
...films being made explodes, they watch fewer and fewer films. This is the result of their hopelessly backward and primitive native status. They feel that movies with plenty of senseless violence are dehumanizing and refuse to watch them. They claim to want to see romance, not sex. They persist in their demands for story and character, rather than just seeing the big stars...
While I've always been pragmatic and ecumenical in my reaction to students like Mr. Bloodworth and Ms. Clarke with their preference for Black-solidarist cathartic activism, I persist in articulating to such Black students here at Harvard College what I believe to be a more viable mode of Black-individual and Black-group metamorphosis in our complex post-Capitalist (e.g., Hi-Tech Capitalist, Global Capitalist, etc.) era. Namely--translate your strong cathartic appetite into a strong outreach-to-Black-poor ethos; into an activist healing-hand value orientation that focuses on the manifold crises of cultural life and societal...