Word: persisting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Founded as a wartime improvisation in 1943, when the military had taken most of the male ballplayers and thereby virtually wiped out the minor leagues, the women's circuit managed to persist for 11 seasons. Its initial appeal was a combination of the freaky (Hey, Herb, you think maybe they chew tobacco too?) and the sexy (You should see them little skirts fly up when they slide!). But there were a lot of frustrated tomboys out there who loved the game and were good at it, and who were willing to brave male haw-hawing (and genteel feminine disapproval...
Those same skills served him well as Aquino's crisis manager, but questions persist about whether Ramos has what it takes to move beyond mere survival to inspired leadership. As armed forces Chief of Staff, he correctly assessed the lengthy insurgency by the communist New People's Army as a political, rather than military, problem rooted in the rural poverty that stifles 70% of the population. But Ramos has yet to show that he can mobilize resources to relieve the country's misery on a scale that will make a difference...
...racial antagonisms persist, even at Harvard, and occasionally they explode. Nobody actually says anything particularly racist, but accusations of racism fly freely across the chasm. Sensitivity becomes hypersensitivity, and everyone ends up pissed...
...extremes persist at Harvard. Students "either move in together or 'hook up' for a weekend," says Fishman. "You don't see many people going out for a semester...
...INTERNATIONAL awareness prompted by last November's massacre has not brought an end to the strife in East Timor. Clashes between groups at odds over Indonesia's presence persist. As of February 26 this year, Indonesia instituted a ban on any foreign journalists entering East Timor...