Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doing its best to snuff out the odor. It has used ammonium nitrate and other chemicals in attempts to neutralize the gases that cause the offensive beet smell. Enzymes and aerators have been put to work to help reduce the anaerobic bacteria that produce the gas. Still, the smells persist. Moans Libby Plant Manager Kenneth Schessler: "We get blamed even when there's three feet of ice on the lagoons...
...will not do it tomorrow. Perhaps we will never be able to argue that we were in some way responsible for ending America's role in Indochina. But we must persist, we must remain visible, and we must understand that nothing is ever given--if we want it we must take it. Even if it takes a thousand years...
...really don't know why talented student groups persist in staging plays which were rotten on Broadway in the first place. I recently caught a Tufts production of Man of La Mancha which also induced spasmodic bursts of embarrassment. Both plays resonate with thumping Vague Generalities; both persuade the audience that things'll turn out all right with a little assertion of personal rights and a lot of hope. (Both also portray beggars and criminals and lumpenproletariat as lovable urchins, but the political implications of this are so ludicrous that to point them out seems priggish). There is a blight...
...platitudes persist. But Forrester's fundamental contribution--that attempts to improve all aspects of urban life will be defeated by in-migration--is beginning to make their hegemony a little less certain
...bases his recommendations on "a Hanoi withdrawal," an elimination of NLF influence in the South, and "the projected ending of hostilities by 1973." Reasoning along lines that resemble those traveled by Smithies, Benoit writes, "If hostilities end without a peace treaty, it seems likely that large defense budgets will persist through most of this decade." Later he notes, "Even at best, Vietnam is going to be militarily top-heavy for quite some time...