Word: persists
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...fairness, Reagan has shown flexibility on small matters, and there was a spirit of conciliation in his speeches last week. But close friends of his are concerned lose the public sense of his stubbornness could persist, that he could yet lose the opportunities in defense and budget matters. True, what some perceive as cast-iron prejudice may be wily calculation, designed to pressure Congress into creative response. But a key question remains: Does Reagan have the attribute that Ike's onetime aide Sherman Adams thought most crucial? "I believe," said Adams, "that a President should above all understand...
...Federal Reserve kept the money supply growing at a pace that aggravated inflationary trends. But after Paul Volcker became chairman in 1979, he slowed the growth of money so sharply that interest rates eventually shot to near record highs even as the economy tipped into recession. Strong doubts persist, however, that Volcker will continue that course if the economy drops much further. Says Alan Greenspan, a non-Government adviser to President Reagan: "The financial markets are saying essentially that the Fed will in the end accommodate the budget deficits with a substantial growth in the money supply, thus abruptly putting...
Chief Frank Fools Crow and his wife Katy live in an aging one-room house on the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation in western South Dakota Although conditions have improved on Pine Ridge since the 1973 Wounded Knee uprising, many of the problems which led to the takeover still persist More than 60 percent of the reservation Sioux are unemployed. The Fools Crows, like most families, do not have running water or central heating, though they are among the minority who have electricity...
...renewal of relations between the U.S. and China, implacable enemies since the Communist takeover of the mainland in 1949. The agreement led to an immediate exchange of diplomats by the two nations that had fought so bitterly on the battlefields of the Korean War. Despite the problems that persist, particularly those concerning the status and defense of the Nationalist government on Taiwan, there is absolutely no doubt that China's "American decade," as it has sometimes been called, has altered the realities of global power...
...find it difficult to think about what will happen in a nuclear war, you are not alone. As Dr. Eric Chivian, an MIT psychiatrist, told Harvard's Convocation on Nuclear War last November 79 percent of the public surveyed "tries not to worry about nuclear war." And these attitudes persist despite--or perhaps because of--the view among 86 percent that their chances of surviving a nuclear war are 50-50 or less. As Chivian puts it, imagining nuclear war is a "little like looking at our own deaths. We can only do that the way we look...