Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Poor conditions created by the passage of time and maintainance deferral persist in areas of the College beyond the Houses--and so do corrective efforts. One principal concern of the Faculty is renovating Sever Hall, once among the University's most famed works of architecture. "Sever has just been let go," Gerrity says, adding that to allow for easy repairs for the 103-year-old building, Sever will close in 1983. The renovations will be similar to those done in Robinson Hall, Joyce says, adding, "Robinson has come out pretty nicely...
...banking analysis at the National Bank of Detroit, feels the "general trend of short-term rates is downward." In New York, H. Erich Heinemann, a vice president of Morgan Stanley, said, "I think we're living through a temporary bubble in interest rates that is not likely to persist...
...body of the visible opposition to the Viet Nam War. Their activity peaked in the angry campus protests that followed the killing of four students during antiwar demonstrations at Kent State University in 1970. Soon after that, to the shock of many of their elders who expected them to persist and grow as a permanent political force, the young moved offstage...
...starters, the Ivy League, in all its infinite wisdom, eliminated the five-week supervised fall lacrosse practice of past years. Whether or not all the schools adhered to the ruling (rumors of holes in the nets at Cornell continue to persist) is uncertain. But Harvard did, with Scalise busy with women's soccer, and a surplus of laxmen wandering around Soldiers Field, searching for a place to swing their sticks. The vacant tennis courts behind Palmer Dixon were finally settled on, but a tennis court does not a lax field make, with space enough for only a few players...
...reasonable choice. After all, black Americans have a richly independent culture quite apart from the one that has been imposed upon them, a culture made up of its own music, language, a common past. With a history of such guilt and hate between them, why should black and white persist in a sham? Why should they not go their separate-but-equal ways...