Word: stubborner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...live peaceably with them. Nor is it necessary for the U.S. to enroll in a Gorbachev personality cult in order to recognize the Soviet leader as being a figure of hope, for all his contradictions. His upbringing, schooling and rise to power have produced a man of immense incongruities, stubborn and flexible, a faithful ideologue and a radical experimenter...
...dadgummit. "The farm isn't groomed -- there's a kind of wildness to the place. It's beautiful, a little Nirvana down there." Holly was the willful tomboy. "My father did not approve of my learning to drive a tractor," she says, "which is probably why I'm so stubborn. He made the rules, and I broke them. But, like everyone who grows up on a farm, I got a working knowledge of life and death and what goes on in between. Cats get bitten by snakes, dogs get run over -- and then a calf is born. It's healthy...
...PCBs can cause cancer in laboratory animals -- the chemicals were widely used in electrical equipment as a flame retardant to reduce the risk of fires and explosions. Texas Eastern, for example, long ago put PCBs into the compressors that drive natural gas through the company's pipelines, and the stubborn residues of the chemicals are still present. The firm is only one of 14 pipeline companies the EPA has been investigating for PCB leakage. Less severe problems may exist at hundreds of other enterprises, from electric utilities to railroads. Industrial users have scattered an estimated 1.2 billion lbs. of PCBs...
...chain, French publishing interests and vast stretches of Northeast U.S. timberland. Goldsmith's profit: $450 million. Having fled the market, Goldsmith declared, "I am a spectator, and will remain a spectator for the time being." An important factor that prompted Goldsmith to bail out of the market was the stubborn U.S. trade deficit, which, he had assumed, would eventually cause interest rates to rise and stock prices to fall. Said he: "This is exactly what has happened...
Nearby, other fire fighters with faces like chimney sweeps exchange tales of close calls and prior battles. Their constant coughing sounds like a tuberculosis ward. As they talk, each fire takes on its own mischievous personality, some quick and cagey, others plodding and stubborn. Despite the laughter, some fire fighters appear homesick. The constant, tortuous line at the only two available pay phones is full of long faces. After waiting for 2 1/2 hrs. to call his wife, one man is greeted by an answering machine, and his howls echo through the smoke as he storms back to his tent...