Word: persisted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ALMOST SURPRISING that such idiotic arguments used to uphold discrimination could persist for 50 years. But in fact they have come to justify even more than segregation--now the military wants complete exclusion. And while the Pentagon pointedly denied its racism during the 1940s, now it openly states its anti-gay sentiment...
Turnovers persist in bothering Mitchell. In 26 games last year, he turned the ball over 82 times. So far this season, he has let it go 27 times. He is on a pace to surpass his stats from last year, in the one category he would rather...
Powell did say, however, that if current trends of consumer spending persist, sales at the Coop this month will fall short of last year's figures...
...truth has a way of being much less dramatic. If Japan is shifting much investment and production to its Asian neighbors, it is doing no more than U.S. multinationals have done for decades. Japan's economic output may top America's GNP in 10 years if current growth rates persist, but large numbers of Japanese who struggle with skimpy retirement benefits and cramped homes still look up to the American way of life. Kembei books amount to little more than curiosities. The very term kembei is so new as to be virtually unknown...
Sure, the problems persist. The campus is still a dangerous place, the Adams House pool is still closed for "renovations" and those little career books from OCS suddenly started costing big bucks...