Word: persisting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chagrined that some members of the LawReview persist in lobbying students, facultymembers, Law School administrators, the presidentof the University, prospective employers and themedia regarding the charges that have been leviedagainst me. These charges are too serious and theprinciples underlying them too important toresolve through a trial by media," Schulman'sstatement said...
Claims of media bias persist regardless of the outcome of any particular election. One has to ask which of the media: the Philadelphia Inquirer or the National Enquirer, the Wall Street Journal or the New Republic, Nightline or A Current Affair? And on which issues? Few people fall at exactly the same place in the left-right spectrum on everything from economics, the environment and foreign policy to such social issues as gay rights and abortion. On many economic and environmental matters -- and even, to a lesser degree, on the social issues around which the Republicans focused their convention...
Patrick later said that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) had investigated the charges and come to similar conclusions. But MCAD only looked into two cases of harassment, and the charges persist...
...Knowles can't find the 10 minutes to meet with Raza and La O representatives, rallies, protests and sit-ins could very well follow. If his excuses persist, he will have spent more time telling people he doesn't have the time to speak with La O and Raza than it would actually take to talk with them. Fernandez has sent a second letter to Knowles, again expressing the desire to meet. If the dean again responds negatively, Fernandez said, "We'll have to do something else. We don't want to get caught up in sending letters back...
...also true that the candidates persist in being evasive about questionable episodes in their past. In Bush's case, it is what he knew as Ronald Reagan's Vice President about the Iran-contra scandal. His continued claim that he was "out of the loop" or "excluded from key meetings" when this murky, subterranean scheme was being hatched in the upper echelons of the Reagan Administration has been constantly challenged, notably by a 1987 memo dictated to an aide by former Secretary of State George Shultz...