Word: persistency
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Even alarmists concede that newspapers will persist in some form for a long time. Says analyst John Morton of the consultants Lynch Jones & Ryan: "There is still no cheaper or more economic way to deliver a mass amount of news to a mass audience." But in a business accustomed to high profit, a slight slippage can result in cutbacks of coverage. Some editors predict that newspapers will become repackagers, rather than originators, of information, dropping costly foreign bureaus and investigative projects in favor of wire- service copy. Other editors argue that what makes newspapers marketably different is depth and detail...
Even so, real or imagined unfairness in trade will persist, as will visceral fears of one's country being overtaken and bought up by foreigners. Fighting protectionism, the creed of economic know-nothings, in the U.S. and elsewhere, may be the greatest challenge to American leadership, and also its greatest opportunity. A special advantage is that the U.S., both an Atlantic and a Pacific power, has closer ties to Europe and Japan than they have to each other...
...numbers for last year--16 assaults with a deadly weapon, three sexual assaults, 127 burglaries--show both that security problems persist on campus, and for the case of sexual assaults, they persist much more than reported. Publishing these numbers--and working to make them more accurate--is an important first step; the next should be to reduce those numbers. Harvard must take several key steps to make this campus genuinely safe for students...
Last week the French President's office released an official communique stating that doctors had detected a mild case of low blood sugar and low blood pressure during Mitterrand's twice-yearly checkup. But rumors persist that the full extent of Mitterrand's mysterious malady has yet to be disclosed. According to a well-placed official, Mitterrand travels with dialysis and transfusion equipment and received one blood transfusion during his Florida visit...
...undemocratic laws and practices persist, most of them defended in the name of the threat from the north. It is still a crime to give any support to North Korea, even to write or paint about it. Suspected subversives are routinely beaten, and the government keeps politicians under surveillance. While these remnants of the authoritarian past have severely tested U.S. support, Washington now believes Seoul is on the right track...