Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since it took over BL in 1975, the British government has invested $4.4 billion, much of it to modernize the company's production facilities. Yet the problems persist. Workers, already far less productive than their foreign competitors, are prone to going out on strike at the drop of a wrench. BL's management has often been slow to prune outmoded, unprofitable car lines or to react to changes in the auto market. The company, for example, stopped exporting Land Rovers to the U.S. in 1976, mainly because of a shortage of capacity, and thus missed a boom...
...forgot all about the money. In September the safe was cleaned out, and someone told the FBI of the cash. The Justice Department is investigating the matter; because Allen is a high federal official, the Attorney General may have to appoint a special prosecutor if doubts about his conduct persist. Allen stepped down from Reagan's staff for a week last fall amid reports that he had misused his connections in the Nixon White House. Will the President stick by him this time? "I can't comment on that while it is under review," Reagan said Saturday...
...easy to understand pre-Copernican beliefs in a flat earth and similarly easy to account for the accumulation of popular myths about the cold before the disease's viral nature became clear. But why do so many dubious beliefs persist in the face of new knowledge? The inertia of human prejudices is only part of the answer. An additional reason lies in the truth that a cold, typically, is far more than a mere medical event...
...could be extremely close. But the late shift in momentum--and the nagging thought that there may just not be enough CCA voters in the city--indicate it may not come down to the wire at all, that the present equilibrium maintaining its precarious balance on Vellucci, will persist...
...remain unadulterated by the vastly different society immigrant groups found themselves in. There is much in Ethnic America, but Sowell is too satisfied by his conclusion: that the men who have made America have been masters of their own fate, and of little else. He hesitates to question the persistence of Italians' strong attachment to their families, or Blacks' inability to break paternalism, and whether these traits are preserved beyond their control. Sowell's failure to address these issues betrays his willingness to accept differences that persist today. Few can doubt these to be the result of America's ethnic...