Word: persisted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hourly wages have fallen 19% since 1973, so most families need two jobs just to get by. If women were not working, the American family would be in desperate financial trouble by now. Yet we seem to expect women somehow to rear their children in their spare time. We persist in thinking of child care as a woman's issue. It's not. Fathers are more to blame for the parenting deficit in our society...
...years with TIME, Morrow has written about subjects ranging from pestilence to Presidents and from wars to the reason why men persist in wearing neckties. A colleague claims that Morrow uses the Socratic method. Says Lance: "It's more like the Lamaze method: a lot of huffing and subdued screams. When they start coming every 30 seconds or so, I deliver an essay." For his labors, he won a 1981 National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism and was a finalist a second time this spring...
...example, researchers now realize that nearly everyone harbors T cells that will react against their own nerve tissue. Yet less than 1 person in 1,000 develops multiple sclerosis. What else is the body doing to police its overly zealous defenders? Scientists do not expect the uncertainties to persist much longer. "We're at a point where we know when a child would be at a 50 to 100 times greater risk of getting a long list of autoimmune diseases," says Stanford neurologist Lawrence Steinman. "For several diseases we know the bacteria or viruses that can trigger the illness...
Alcoholics usually have trouble stopping drinking when they start: after they begin, they persist until they are more or less drunk. Ted Kennedy sometimes has one drink, then goes about his business...
...dearth of serious opposition, should it persist, could be Bush's greatest asset as he seeks to win a second term. The problem the Democrats face is neatly expressed by Barbara Kantorowicz of Shoreview, Minn., a single mother who ended nine years on welfare last year when she started work for a local social-service organization, the Family Violence Network. Meanwhile, her own day-to-day financial struggle goes on. "I'm struggling just as much as when I was on welfare," she sighs. Would she vote again for George Bush, as she did in 1988? Maybe. "There...