Word: persisting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weaken many affirmative action laws. That is why it is incumbent on employers to hire in the Spirit of affirmative action--a spirit which rejects reverse discrimination, but encourages an extra effort in finding qualified minorities. If Harvard students refuse to take the lead in such cases, inequality will persist beyond a resident tutor post...
...these levels of chlorine monoxide--the highest ever measured at midlatitudes--persist for a month, they could destroy as much as two percent of the ozone in a given region, according to Toohey...
...expensive hiatus. By letting Jackson go before March 20, the Royals were obligated to pay only $395,000 of his one-year, $2.3 million contract. His $1.6 million salary for the Raiders this year is not immediately at risk, but it will be if the effects of the injury persist. And a foreshortened sports career may truncate his higher-paying second job as the endorser of Diet Pepsi, AT&T and various sports medicines -- plus his starring role in Nike's "Bo Knows . . ." commercials. All that off-the-field effort brings in about $5 million a year...
...role in a combatant's battle plan, and even though the fighting lasted only 42 days, it may turn out to be the most ecologically destructive conflict in the history of warfare. Experts are still sorting out the effects on the air, land and sea, some of which may persist for generations to come...
...most stunning, overwhelming victory in war is a beginning as well as an end. Diplomatic problems will persist long after the burned-out hulks of Iraqi tanks and the bodies strewn across the cratered battlefield are buried by sand. Political dangers will explode after the last of thousands of mines are dug up. Psychological reverberations will be felt when the final echoes of cheers for the victors have died away...