Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ruckelshaus suggested last week that even tougher rules may follow if motorists continue to pollute illegally by using leaded fuel in engines designed for lead-free gasoline. One possible remedy being considered: a total ban on leaded gas if the violations persist...
...should be excluded. It is widely assumed that the 1988 Games will be much less restrictive, but with the many committees in various sports that set the rules with the I.O.C. and with the advantage that Communist countries derive from the present structure, it is likely that problems will persist. Arguing about amateurism will still be part of the Seoul Games. Happily, so will athletes who rise above mean circumstance to sublime accomplishment...
...during the years of rural prosperity and is now being pinched by the same combination of high interest rates and falling land values that bedevils much of rural America. In the process, Block is becoming for certain farm-state Democrats a deliciously ironic political symbol of agricultural troubles that persist despite the Administration policies that Block helps...
...Gentlemen, gentlemen," exclaims another, "let us return the athletics to the athletes. The Olympics cannot persist with such a fusion of the body physical and the body political...
...when it is at its ugliest, more than at any other time." Fugard expresses his own love by stubbornly remaining at home, and by using drama as a form of Gandhian nonviolent resistance. That commitment has inevitably entangled him in a series of controversies. When leading British dramatists persist in boycotting South Africa with their plays, Fugard vehemently contends in 1968 that it is better to confront the regime with its sins than to remain silent. When ideology beckons, he recoils, resolving at last that he would rather reveal inhumanity poetically than revile it politically. "Tell the human story...