Word: stubborner
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Nevertheless, the stubborn nationalist seemed to be holding his own last week in a tense confrontation with Gorbachev over Lithuania's effort to break away from the Soviet Union. Day after day the two fought a battle of communiques. The struggle reaffirmed a fact that has become increasingly clear since Lithuania's declaration of independence two weeks ago: the mild-mannered pianist may turn out to be the Soviet President's most dangerous enemy -- not because he is so strong, but because Lithuania represents the first crack in what could be the collapse of the union that binds the country...
WORLD: In Lithuania, a test of wills between two canny and stubborn leaders...
...Tokyo market, which stands at 36,874, up from 13,000 in late 1985. Some Wall Street brokerage firms recently began selling a new product: warrants that allow investors to profit if the Tokyo market falls. But most investors do not fear a crash so much as a long, stubborn decline. If the January mood persists, the long-running bull market will go out not with a bang but with a long, drawn-out whimper...
...great heart just when I was needing it; sometimes John as you know I am cast in the pit of despair, wondering what I am meant to do and if I am doing the right thing--should I sell the damn place and solve all my problems, but some stubborn streak makes me keep holding on. Man I owe thousands of pounds, about sixteen thousand in all. How the hell do I get out of this mess tell me, please do, and yet I still nurture a dream to make this place into somewhere the jobless and homeless wandering about...
...gone unnoticed. Wealthy donor nations have pledged hundreds of thousands of tons of foodstuffs. Distribution networks exist to allocate the food. Relief convoys stand ready to move it. All that separates millions of malnourished Ethiopians and Sudanese from the food that could save their lives is a handful of stubborn men: President Mengistu Haile Mariam of Ethiopia, Lieut. General Omar Hassan el Bashir, the head of Sudan's 15-man junta, and the rebel leaders opposing them. All are more intent upon winning their wars than feeding the people they are supposedly fighting for. "If people die this time...