Word: persisting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this week, the 132 member nations of the General Assembly Budgetary Committee will vote on a volatile issue: a request from the U.S. to reduce its contribution to the organization's regular budget from 31.5% to 25% beginning in 1974. Should the committee vote no and should Washington persist in its announced intention, the U.S. could theoretically lose its vote in the General Assembly after being in arrears for two years (although in the 1960s when the Russians and French refused to pay for peacekeeping operations they disapproved of, they still kept their vote...
...explanation, suggests Helmreich, may be that "children who are sick more often are more isolated from others of their own age and so they tend to use adults as their models." This may make them pursue difficult goals early in life, so that they establish habits of striving that persist to adulthood...
...governmental change. Beyond that the hope is that the end result will be not only a saving of money and a tinkering with the machinery of Government for its own sake, but that the streamlined machine will really be used to cope with the pressing national concerns that persist...
Anomaly. The question of a mandate will persist. Will the election of 1972 be remembered as an extravagant anomaly, an essentially reluctant landslide? McGovern, who had profoundly misread the temper of the American people, seized what is still the majority party and drove millions of Democrats, many of them unwillingly, to Nixon. But many are uneasy there as well, and it is not likely that they will find a permanent home there. Thus Nixon's mandate is indeed major, but, like all democratic mandates, conditional. He has temporarily taken the center away from the Democrats, and it remains...
...Shirley Institute in Manchester; he has been studying ways of reducing the static electricity built up by walking across carpets and other floor coverings. Greenwood knew that static electricity may be generated wherever a shoe rubs against a rug. His research had further established that the charge can persist for hours (particularly on some synthetic rugs in dry air) and that the shape of the charged area conforms to the shape of the sole and heel that created it. Those facts were of particular interest to Greenwood, who had also done forensic research for the Home Office-which has overall...