Word: persisting
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...section, he photographed crucial documents tracking that country's bitter split with Moscow. A CIA specialist on Sino-Soviet relations drew on rich detail from a Soviet source -- whom he learned just last week was Polyakov -- that enabled the analyst to conclude confidently that the Sino-Soviet split would persist. The paper was used by Henry Kissinger, helping him and Nixon forge their 1972 opening to China...
...Zhirinovsky's father may have been Jewish and that his son tried to cover that up -- this from a man who expressed fears of a future in which "150 million Russians have to obey" 2 million Jews. Moreover, suspicions that the KGB was instrumental in his rise to power persist. Such discrepancies do more than simply call into question Zhirinovsky's personal honesty and integrity; they also suggest that by elevating his life to the level of myth, he may be attempting to lay the foundations for a personality cult...
Considering all the woes they face, why do winemakers persist? Well, there is something magical in helping turn the juice of lowly grapes into a beverage that is like none other on earth. And having survived a mountain of troubles, veteran vintners can look upon something like PD as just one more hazard of the business. "What the hell," says Jack Cakebread of Napa's prizewinning Cakebread Cellars. "Agriculture has always been that way. But it's a bummer. I just planted 350 prune trees that host the wasps that prey on the sharpshooter." He pauses to sip from...
Campbell's second argument is just as bad. The fact that a paper is free does not imply that it has no objective economic value. Products with no economic value do not last very long, and yet many of these free papers persist far longer than one would expect for economically worthless entities. How would Campbell resolve this paradox...
...pulling out, leaving behind a greatly diminished U.N. force drawn mostly from developing nations that have neither the resources nor the political will to engineer the peace that eluded their better-equipped counterparts. Yet the fundamental problems that triggered the famine of 1992 and the U.S.-led military intervention persist. Warlords are in the ascendant, bedeviling efforts by the U.N. and Somalis to negotiate a political solution. Violent attacks on aid workers have increased, threatening to reverse any progress made in the past year. The prospect of renewed anarchy has brought many Somalis to the brink of despair. "It will...