Word: persisting
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...confidential British government study on the North Vietnamese economy, which TIME obtained last week, shows that behind Hanoi's stubborn determination to persist in the war lies a startlingly fragile economy...
...only absolute insisted in Michael Walzer's Obligations: Essays on Disobedience. War, and Citizenship -the only demand made on the political actor-is to perceive that moral choices exist. Once made, these choices persist and shift over time, divide a man's allegiance, and estrange his comrades. Walzer's essays whatever their other lessons, brilliamly ill?minate these choices. They imaginatively accommodate political ethics to the native brand of social protest which emerged in the 60's. Walzer attempts here to order a discussion of recent history without detailed reference to that history...
...college student, and I can't help but weep for my country. I look around and see my brothers gunned down in the streets. Our "leaders" persist in pursuing an unjust war, and yet the Great Silent Majority remains silent. What does it take to make people see that this country is on the brink of disaster...
...meeting of TIME'S Board of Economists, Harvard's Otto Eckstein listed a number of other reasons why prices persist in rising despite the Federal Reserve's policy of money scarcity. "The rest of the world is in a very prosperous state," said he, "and demand for raw materials keeps prices rising. The present inflation is so intense that it is difficult to cure?there hasn't been a 6%-a-year inflation in modern times except for a few months after Korea. In addition, the Government is moving toward protectionism in world trade. Finally, there has been an ideological...
...lead to resentment on the part of qualified blacks, who feel that it casts suspicion on their own abilities. Says Lem Tucker, a Washington correspondent for NBC: "I can understand the initial skepticism. But after two years of doing good work, it makes me mad." Many black newsmen persist, however, and some have already demonstrated that they are among the best newsmen...