Word: persisting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...until that time and as long as they persist in their determination to destroy Israel, Israel has no alternative but to keep as much distance as possible between its people and its hostile neighbors...
THESE FEATURES-- economic, political and cultural distortion--persist unabated in many Third World countries today. The primary imperial power and the method of domination have changed, but the result is much the same--these nations, although nominally independent, are still controlled from without. The United States has assumed the position formerly held by England, France and Germany at the imperialist summit. Garrisons and outright colonies are no longer needed; American investment and influence and aculture can usually penetrate the Third World unaided. But American military stands ominously in the background, ready to re-open the channels of direct domination...
Nixon said national self-sufficiency in energy by 1980 is an essential goal, and urged the use of coal in industry instead of oil. If the fuel shortages persist, stronger measures may be required, the president said. Plans for rationing of gasoline and home heating oil were being prepared "only as a contingency plan," he added...
...untidy life and death of Malcolm Lowry have provided one of those feverish legends that persist in the literary bloodstream. With good cause. Lowry's was a life that both offends and fascinates-which is to say it excites the voyeuristic instinct. There were his Faustian bouts with alcohol as some kind of sorcerer's abused magic potion. There were his Baudelairean rumblings at the back door to salvation. There was also some basic tight-vested Freudian neurosis and a not quite redeeming sense of irony...
...acoustic problems that echoed through New York's Philharmonic Hall long after it was built in 1962 seem to be solved, but fiscal difficulties persist...