Word: stubborner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dean this summer thought I was a reporter. He was wrong, though. Good reporters challenge stubborn bureaucracies. They weave through lies, exaggerations and insults to find the truth. Good reporters are arrogant, but they're also selfless in a way. I'm an editor of The Crimson and I spend 90 percent of my time there working with these reporters. But in the end, I'm too busy navigating through my own emotions to commit fully to the world of news...
Mother Harvard is a stubborn institution set in her ways. It takes patience and dedication to convince her to change or alter her traditions. In the past ten years, she has neglected the Hispanic community she needs so much to prove her diversity. Harvard needs to build the Hispanic community by bringing more of us at every level. The simple problem is that we are not represented on campus, and the less simple answer is that we need more students, faculty and staff of Hispanic descent on this campus...
Young's audacity saves him in the end when, as always, an inch away from the top, he walks away from it. His stubborn attitude buffers Young's resolution at the end of the film, in which he comes to terms with his relationships and career. Buddy experiences contentment and even accepts his place in the grand scheme of things...
Most Republicans breathed a sigh of relief when former Secretary of State James Baker took over the White House in August. Baker and his team, it was said, could make quick decisions. They could stop the leaks. Baker could talk straight to the stubborn President. As the engineer of Bush's 1988 win, Baker seemed just the political wizard that the President's often incoherent re- election campaign needed...
Calaveras County was once the heart of the Gold Rush. This August the rush has been for the exits. Stubborn forest fires swept through drought-stricken timber and brush, threatening a score of scenic small towns, once made famous by Mark Twain and Bret Harte, and forcing nearly 14,000 residents to flee. Nearly 4,000 fire fighters labored throughout the week, bringing the flames under control just as another wildfire broke out in Northern California's Shasta County...