Word: persists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...again seemingly without reason. Even fashionmongers, the people who devote themselves to charting these periodic cycles, make no pretense of perceiving a rational causality in it. Rather, they channel their energies into sniffing out the true trend-setter-or-reviver from among the herd of recherche hangers-on who persist in feeding off the piled carcasses of defunct trends...
Although rumors persist in entertainment and news circles that Bradshaw may eventually be compelled to attempt to sell NBC, the new boss insists that the network is not on the market. Nonetheless, Bradshaw has a major and frustrating problem with his biggest subsidiary. With the exception of the critically acclaimed Hill Street Blues series, NBC has few standout offerings of any sort in its current prime-time lineup. Its market share of viewers has dropped by 8% in the past year. Says Bradshaw with grim gallows humor: "Our NBC profits are so much lower than the competition's network...
...does anti-Catholicism persist at a university where discrimination against Blacks, Jews, women, American Indians, and other is piously denounced? The answer is that many people are afraid of religion. People need gods, and if they have rejected the "old" one they must invent a new one, whether it be sex, football, consumerism, or even Harvard. But the problem is that the old one refuses to go away. Henry Rosovsky may say. "Harvard is here forever," but in fact, Harvard is not here forever. The Christian Church is here forever, and in the year 4000, when Harvard and The Crimson...
...When I set out, I had no idea what I would find," Rosenblatt recalls. What he found was at once simple and confounding: "That children persist and, miraculously, are still kids." Sums up Rosenblatt: "I feel more like a messenger than a writer." TIME'S readers will be grateful, however, that he has brought a writer's eye to a story that so truly measures the strength of the human spirit...
Last July, the Health Research Group released a report which stated that many states--especially California, Colorado, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia--persist in violating Federal regulations concerning sterilization of low-income Medicaid patients...