Word: persisting
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...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...
...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...
Weiner said he will persist in his crusade against the stand and "follow it through to the end," to make sure his business is not undercut by a deluxe, and perhaps illegal news shack. "Now he wants to sell everything," said Weiner, standing behind a lottery ticket machine and underneath a hanging row of portable headphone radios. "It's unfair competition...
...liners for other comedians and eventually performed his own stand-up routines. He based his stand-up act on self-created, fictitious character full of neuroses. Allen's selfmade image has pervaded the movie characters he portrays, causing an inseparable image of Woody the character and the man to persist to this...
Epps insisted Malcolm X's fundamental views of Black pride and frustration in an oppressive society still persist today...