Word: stubborn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dollar signs need only try a more rational approach. Are we so superficial that we can't see past a label? If Harvard University suddenly became [Insert Name Here] University, would we not still have the same beautiful campus, storied history, world-class faculty, and stellar student-body? Such stubborn intransigence to change is both foolish and expensive...
What makes the belief in genetic identity so stubborn? In part a natural confusion over headlines. There are zillions of them about how genes shape behavior, but the underlying stories spring from two different sciences. The first, behavioral genetics, studies genetic differences among people. (Do you have the thrill-seeking gene? You do? Mind if I drive?) Behavioral genetics has demonstrated that genes matter. But does that mean that genes are destiny, that your clone...
...April by President Clinton and President Kim Young Sam of South Korea to hold peace talks between the two Koreas, China and the United States. Despite North Korea's reluctance, the very fact that its increasingly isolated and insular government agreed to even limited discussions after 25 years of stubborn silence on the issue is considered a major breakthrough. The North downplayed its presence, however, suggesting it agreed to attend out of "deep regret" for a recent incursion of a North Korean submarine into South Korean waters. Nonetheless, t he U.S. and South Korea continued efforts to woo the North...
...German mark. Some believe that privately he is a single-currency foe fearful of losing his power to the new European Central Bank. Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, in an extraordinary open letter last year, branded Tietmeyer's stance as anti-European. "If you continue with your stubborn policies," Schmidt wrote to the banker, "Germany will become isolated...
Deng used that maxim to mean many things, but at its most fundamental it defines the base line of his blueprint for reform: a stubborn, inflexible resistance to political change. A hard-liner all his life, he was determined that economic liberalization would not sweep away the Communist Party's monopoly on power. He committed his successors to the relentless repression of democracy. Deng and some of the men now in power ordered the tanks into Tiananmen Square in June 1989 to crush the nascent democracy movement beneath a heap of bloody bodies. Since then, virtually all of China...