Word: persistency
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...agree that victims should not be blamed for the crimes committed against them. But what should you say about Radcliffe women who persist in walking home alone and at night across the Cambridge Common? They are not indicating their willingness to be raped. They are, however, allowing themselves to be unnecessarily vulnerable to attack. I for one will not run the risk of being attacked in order to prove my courage and independence...
...Swedish interview in which he appeared to favor the violent overthrow of the Communist regime. In Kuron's defense, Walesa warned that slandering KOR members could be a violation of the Gdansk agreement. It was a veiled but unmistakable threat of new strikes if Warsaw should persist in its crackdown on dissidents...
...talks have made little if any progress. The British view concessions as a surrender to I.R.A. demands; the I.R.A. has reinforced that position by killing a score of off-duty prison guards. Yet until the H-block issue is resolved, the I.R.A. has a propaganda point as its terrorists persist in their increasingly lonely and ugly battle against both the British troops and the Ulster police...
...absorption through the skin. The gases work by blocking neurotransmitters, disrupting the central nervous system, inducing vomiting, convulsions and paralysis and finally death from respiratory failure and asphyxia. Exposure 0.4-1 milligram of gas kills within a few minutes. When released in high density nerve gases can persist as an airborne hazard for days or weeks...
...strikes persist and workers launch free unions...