Word: persisting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minority presence on the faculty cannot be said to exist simply because a Black man or woman will occasionally deliver a lecture. Less than 7 percent of the Harvard faculty is considered minority and that includes counting foreign nationals and Asian-Americans. This situation will persist until the University begins to hire Blacks and other minorities for tenured positions on a more regular basis...
This time the ecological agenda goes beyond Earth Day folk songs and the old tree-hugger concerns of toxics, smog and the deterioration of national parks. Those disgraceful problems still persist. But they have been overshadowed by a realization that the world's life-support system may be on the brink of a breakdown because of carbon-dioxide loads, chlorofluorocarbon residues and forest destruction. The earth and its atmosphere are drowning in man-made wastes, a situation that has become so critical it may soon make other political issues -- even budget deficits and military needs -- seem trivial. Yet the dire...
...film the projector usually gets repaired and you can resolve the questions you have. But with The Boys and Their Baby, the novel ends and you're still waiting for more. Five days after you finish it you're still waiting to tie the strings. But the loose ends persist...
...cheap petroleum fro. Several years ago, British Journalist Robert Hutchison enlisted in the small army of these diesel gypsies, sharing their home cooking and their raunchy exploits. Aside from engine trouble and the occasional stray bullet, his lively memoir records few acknowledgments of the 20th century. Ancient hostilities persist, and bribery remains endemic. Still, customs inspectors prefer modern baksheesh. At one checkpoint, the presentation of a girly magazine "got us all waved out of the compound without further hassle...
...received warmly. The Chamber is temporarily using the slogan of the Convention and Visitors Bureau: "Look at Atlanta Now." It emphasizes the contemporary partly because a remarkable number of visitors, presumably oblivious to the century of hustling that has gone into transforming Atlanta into a modern national city, persist in envisioning it as it existed in Margaret Mitchell's antebellum fantasies: they stand in the shadow of Atlanta's great office towers and ask to see Tara. "Look at Atlanta Now" may be replaced in time, but there are no obvious candidates. "The Business of America is Business...