Word: stubborner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is, of course, a scientific explanation. A stubborn high-pressure system over the Rockies is keeping warm westerly winds trapped, while Siberian air masses come trundling over the North Pole and down the Eastern seaboard. Other observers, more seasoned, merely grumble that it is the cussed contrariness of Old Man Winter pulling one of his periodic bone-chilling acts on the East Coast. In any case, the record-breaking weather of the past month was, of course, all ordained last August when squirrels gathered nuts and spiders spun webs much earlier than usual...
...that had become a hallmark of his 3½ years in office. The issue had originally seemed relatively benign: a pay raise for the country's 65,000 teachers, approved earlier by a blue-ribbon committee. In the Cabinet, however, the salary question provoked a collision between two stubborn antagonists: Finance Minister Yigal Hurvitz, who was determined to forestall any new wage spiral that would further boost the country's 140% hyperinflation, and Education Minister Zevulun Hammer, who felt equally committed to the teachers. Each vowed to resign if he lost the battle, taking precious parliamentary votes with...
...catastrophes are by nature all or nothing experiences, many deaths. Sooner or later, eastern Nevada, or central Mississippi, or even southern Massachusetts, will watch a valve fail and a core melt down. A lot of people will evacuate, but a lot will be stuck in traffic or be too stubborn to leave. And a lot will die, and everyone will vote for congressmen who promise to take firm action to close down nuclear plants. And Time and Newsweek will sell ten million copies apiece...
Although the President and State Department could have been tempted to cut off further discussions with those whom Secretary of State Edmund Muskie publicly described as "very stubborn, irrational" Iranian officials, they vowed to keep channels of communication open with Tehran, even as they began to lose hope that any progress could be made in their remaining three weeks in office...
Paul Weyrich, whose Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress advises NCPAC and other groups on strategy and fundraising, has helped define the conservative movement's stubborn policy toward the Republicans: "We don't owe them a damned thing...