Word: steadfastness
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Harvard's effect on her: "Coming to Harvard has made me more steadfast in some of my beliefs...even being exposed to different types of people, even homosexuals I've been exposed to. Before I would never have considered myself prejudiced, but now I would be more sensitive. If someone was making a derogatory comment, I'd be more likely to step up to it. If I heard someone making a gay-bashing comment, now I actually have a friend who is that...I don't think I have really changed, it's just that it's become more personal...
...investigators concede, they are not even sure what part of the country the second suspect is hiding in or whether McVeigh -- who broke his steadfast silence last week only to reject two lawyers provided by his family -- is mastermind or pawn. Are the Nichols brothers more deeply involved than they are now charged? Was John Doe No. 2 the ringleader? "Somebody did motivate them," an agent maintains. Furthermore, "he could easily motivate two or three more militia types to do this again somewhere else. You do this two or three times, we'd be chasing our butts. This...
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) and Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) -- two of Washington's most steadfast deficit hawks -- today proposed legislation to permit Americans to deduct every dollar they save and invest. The plan, asimplification of the tax codealong the lines of the Individual Retirement Account, arrives just as federal income tax reform is shaping up as a major issue in the1996 presidential election. GOP senators and White House hopefulsRichard Lugar of IndianaandArlen Specter of Pennsylvaniahave already embraced a "flat tax," andBob Doleis thinking it over...
...Mashek said that the objectivity of theseborn-again reporters was questionable. He said aformer editor at the Globe had a steadfast rule:"Once you left, you weren't coming back...
...without having a police cordon thrown around the building." His sly art is an anti-striptease: he reveals only edges and crinkles of himself in the pith of an essay or dramatic monologue. "Bennett has become a major figure in the English landscape despite versatility and his steadfast wish to remain hidden," writes critic David Thomson in A Biographical Dictionary of Film. "He may be Britain's best and most stubborn surviving miniaturist...