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Word: persisted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, some baseball owners persist in the belief that there is nothing he matter with their sport. Some even believe major league baseball is on the rebound. The point to increased attendance in many major league parks during the 1993 season as a prime example of this trend...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: While The Game Goes Up in Smoke | 8/3/1993 | See Source »

Initially the Volksfront will employ mass-action tactics such as protest marches and labor strikes led by white unions. If the main parties persist in forming a transitional government, warned Groenewald, that could force whites to secede from South Africa. He refused to rule out leading an insurrection. It is an open question, he added, whether white-led government security forces would obey orders to suppress a white rebellion. That prospect worries many. Last week De Klerk acknowledged that he was only informed after the fact when the police cracked down on the militant Pan Africanist Congress and arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Never, Never, Never | 6/7/1993 | See Source »

...teaching fellows, perhaps they would have more time to read papers if we did away with most traditional lectures. I don't quite understand why we persist with this archaic format where professors just read the same lecture notes they've read for years, changing them a little every now and then. Why is it so unthinkable to do away with the speech and fluff that goes into a fifty minute lecture...

Author: By Dan E. Markel, | Title: Educating Harvard | 4/13/1993 | See Source »

...many people have confused--and continue to confuse--the difference between the front page and the editorial page in remarking upon our news coverage of the Harvard community. Some, all too aware of the distinction, persist in condemning The Crimson as an institution for what they see to be the newspaper's stance on Harvard issues...

Author: By Gady A. Epstein, | Title: Page One and Page Two | 3/19/1993 | See Source »

...goes on to suggest that "there is an economic structure of racism that will persist even if every white who hates Blacks goes through a total conversion." If this idea sounds like heresy, it's only because we have bought in so completely to the dogma that racism is the inalienable, indivisible expression of a general will on the part of whites living in the past, today and in the future. The liberal contention that Harrington puts forward is that most of the racial inequality that persists today is not the intentional result of discrimination, but primarily an economic phenomenon...

Author: By Daniel Choi, | Title: The Diversions of 'Diversity' | 3/19/1993 | See Source »

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