Word: persistence
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Howe is apparently even incapable of writing the occasional press releases he has issued in the course of his term as tax assessor. Reports persist that his statements have in fact been authored by his sister Marie and her close friend Leonard Scott. However, John Howe denies the reports. But under cross-examination by Howe enemy Cosmo Capobianco's lawyers during his March 1977 lawsuit proceedings in Middlesex Country Superior Court, Howe revealed that he did not know the meanings of many of the words used in his own press releases...
...heavy costs Syria had incurred since it intervened in Lebanon two years ago. Ironically, Assad's forces moved in to prevent the defeat of the Christian armies by radical Muslim and Palestinian commandos. Since then, however, the Syrians and the Christians have become bitter enemies because the Christians persist-against Assad's advice-in their efforts to partition Lebanon along sectarian lines. Since February more than 650 Syrian soldiers have perished in running battles with the militiamen, who receive guns and training from Israel. Moreover, the Lebanese fighting has forced Assad to redeploy many of his best troops...
...political freedom and brooked few critics?and a mostly unarmed population weary of Somoza family rule. The still unsolved murder last January of Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, a prominent newspaper editor and a leading critic of the regime, helped to unite a widely factionalized opposition. Despite official denials, suspicions persist that Chamorro's assassination was ordered by Somoza...
Does Mr. Bakke speak Spanish and is he willing to treat the poor and disadvantaged in the barrios of America? Some of the Hispanic doctors that graduated under the Davis quota system are doing just that. With the U.S. Supreme Court ruling, discrimination in the professions will persist for another century...
...persist in adorning the cover of your magazine with the shining faces of Hollywood's creations? First we had John Travolta, and now we are treated to Glamour Boy Warren Beatty. Surely in this world there is more important news than the fact that Mr. Beatty's idea of sin "is to eat ice cream...