Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that he has stacked so much wood in his barn already that there isn't room for more. His real reason is to set an example for the rest of us, as an elder of the tribe should do. I am inclined to believe that his tribe will persist, despite the caterpillars that now beset...
Barbour was stationed in Bulgaria when war was declared. "There was less of it at the beginning, in 1930, and diplomacy was acquiring opprobrium as a striped pants gentlemanly occupation. However, clouds were gathering, clouds which carried the lightning of upheaval, and which still persist today, with different manifestations but with the fundamental ingredient of increasing Soviet power...
...accepting Cyrus Vance's resignation, President Carter continues to confuse such qualities as integrity and sincerity with competence. That this naiveté about personnel matters should persist so long gives rise to doubts about the man's ability to learn from experience...
Harvard University , one can safely predict, will outlast us all. Without a doubt, it will remain an institutional oddity: debates about social responsibility, the relationship with Cambridge, the quality of the undergraduate education and the role of sports seem destined to persist perhaps longer than construction on the Red Line...
What he can do is persist and prevail over most obstacles. When he thinks he is right, he is as stubborn as Chewbacca. When Luke doubts that he can raise his spaceship from the swamp, Yoda stamps his foot. "So sure are you?" he demands. "Tried have you? Always with you it can't be done. Hear you nothing that I say? Try not. Do! Do! Or do not. There is no try." Remembering Lucas' childhood, his father, George Lucas Sr., recalls a blank stare when he tried to persuade his son to do something...