Word: persistency
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...experts caution that the device will work only when combined with counseling, which should include advice on setting a "quit date" and on coping with the urges that will persist even with the patch in place. Unfortunately, physicians have a poor record in this regard. Less than half of 2,700 smokers surveyed for a study in last week's Journal said their doctors had ever advised them to kick the habit or even to cut down...
...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...
...even today misguided attitudes persist. Gays are different. They are effeminate. They cannot be good fighters. They will constantly make sexual advances toward fellow soldiers...
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...
...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...