Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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True, traces of an earlier era persist in the Lechmere area. The smell of chocolate and peppermint and coconut bits still assaults the senses in front of Borden's plant, and the Lechmere department store still sells cheap TVs. But these businesses now share the space with upscale office buildings and chic restaurants...
Jobs are vital, as both candidates assert. But they need to be pressed to ! say how they would produce them. Economic growth is not enough: even in times of general prosperity, large pockets of Underclass poverty persist. A new agency is needed, a revitalized Jobs Corps along the lines of a Work Projects Administration, targeted exclusively at the inner-city unemployed. One cause of the widespread unemployment in inner cities is deindustrialization: the dying out of smokestack industries and their replacement by service industries often located in the suburbs. In the cities, there is a mismatch between skills and opportunities...
Maybe the magazine noticed that Harvard is heisting an increasing number of visiting scholars and junior faculty from Wash U. Still, why would that school persist in calling itself the Harvard of the Midwest...
...harsh and frightening word that we would much rather forget. Moreover, in the year that Rev. Jesse Jackson became a legitimate political figure in the eyes of most Americans, hearing the word reminds us of how easy it is for us to ignore the racial discrimination that continues to persist in this nation...
...clear that blatant racial discrimination--even here at Harvard, a supposed bastion of tolerance and free-thinking--has not been eliminated. Part of the reason is that while we have been praising ourselves for the civil rights successes of the past 20 years, we have ignored the problems that persist...