Word: persistency
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Nixon said national self-sufficiency in energy by 1980 is an essential goal, and urged the use of coal in industry instead of oil. If the fuel shortages persist, stronger measures may be required, the president said. Plans for rationing of gasoline and home heating oil were being prepared "only as a contingency plan," he added...
...untidy life and death of Malcolm Lowry have provided one of those feverish legends that persist in the literary bloodstream. With good cause. Lowry's was a life that both offends and fascinates-which is to say it excites the voyeuristic instinct. There were his Faustian bouts with alcohol as some kind of sorcerer's abused magic potion. There were his Baudelairean rumblings at the back door to salvation. There was also some basic tight-vested Freudian neurosis and a not quite redeeming sense of irony...
...acoustic problems that echoed through New York's Philharmonic Hall long after it was built in 1962 seem to be solved, but fiscal difficulties persist...
...industry and community relations" for the Marriott Corp., the motel and restaurant chain headed by J. Willard Marriott, a major contributor to Republican causes and a presidential friend who needs no influence to get into the White House. But despite this job in a safe haven, the rumors persist in Washington and California, as they have for years, that Don Nixon is often on the verge of somehow getting tangled up in some kind of deal that could cause grief for his brother...
...criminal statutes, some sort of civil action may be the only legal avenue against his crusade. In the meantime, says Dean Kelley, the verdict has made deprogramming "far and away" the leading religious-liberty problem in the U.S. "Apparently it's now open season on young adults who persist in religious groups that their parents or spouses oppose...