Word: persistive
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...person. The entire world has been touched by this young girl. As war and violence persist in our world, and in new, often terrifying forms among young people, we continue to look to Anne to remember what we lose by hatred and brutality, and to learn to preserve our integrity and soul in a world seemingly devoid of those elements. The beauty and truth of her words have transcended the limits placed upon her life by the darkness of human nature...
Professor Nesson and I have confidence in the justice of my claims and we shall persist in the quest to vindicate them. At the same time, we have come to see more clearly that our struggle with Harvard touches concerns that go beyond the particulars of my case. We have come to better understand that my case raises complex and urgent issues about the ethics of academic life and the practice of university self-governance...
...investor and head of Berkshire Hathaway, noted some of these trends two years ago, when his Geico insurance subsidiary doubled its projected 4% profit margin because the number of claims was decreasing. Last year margins were well over the target again. Buffett warned that such stellar results would not persist because they would soon invite competition. That's what has happened, and now he expects the industry's margins to contract as insurers cut prices to battle for market share--bad news if you own the stocks but not if you're a policyholder...
...news with their children, reducing that number to only one family in Illinois could be seen as progress. Still, Elizabeth Dole remains enormously popular, and the Democrats are indulging in wishful thinking, not to speak of poor taste, with their constant demands for an investigation of what they persist in calling "Tinklegate...
Instead, by urging students and workers to persist in a hunger strike and by preventing the government from welcoming Soviet leader Gorbachev on Tiananmen Square, the leaders of the protest humiliated and alienated Chinese leaders. The movement turned a paternalistic government into an authoritarian regime...