Word: steadfastly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even so, opponents are steadfast. James Shannon, the attorney general of Massachusetts, plans to appeal the decision in federal court. Nuclear power opponents contend that the decision represents no rebirth for the industry, since the plant's cost overruns have prompted hefty rate increases for consumers in New England...
There is no special shame in not being the world's greatest nation. The Swiss and the Swedes lead happy lives. Perhaps, having remained steadfast for four decades of cold war, we have done enough. Prosperous isolation has genuine appeal. But it is embarrassing to hear a President proclaim, as Bush did in his State of the Union speech, that "America stands at the center of a widening circle of freedom," with so little to back it up. Surely the transformation of communism to capitalism, totalitarianism to democracy is the great adventure of the next generation. Do we want...