Word: stubbornly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week to assess the state of the U.S. economy "dismal" was about the only word to describe their forecasts. In perhaps their gloomiest session ever, the economists predicted a continuation throughout the year of all the nation's present economic woes: torrid inflation, skyscraping interest rates, sluggish growth, stubborn unemployment, a deepening trade deficit. Worse, they foresaw a new and frightening threat: the possibility of a financial crisis from which some savings and loan associations might have to be rescued by the Federal Government...
...Patrick Gray III. "Oh, he's dumb ... he is just quite stubborn and also he isn't very smart...
...Crimson's record stands at 4-3 with three games remaining. If it can keep up the impressive offense and stubborn defense it showed against Princeton, the rugby club will give a highly-touted team from New Brunswick, Canada, a run for the money in a game here Wednesday...
...Stubborn Caprice. Robert Redford's Gatsby is rather more successful...
Here, however, the object of the obsession is so thoroughly without mystery that it comes to look like little more than a stubborn caprice. With a Gatsby crippled by such a dismal Daisy, the movie must be sustained by its secondary characters. There is little enough strength there. As Daisy's friend Jordan Baker, Lois Chiles seems to be fighting off unsuccessfully the effects of a massive dose of Novocain. George Wilson, the poor garage man who kills Gatsby, and his wife Myrtle are impersonated by Scott Wilson and Karen Black in little bursts of lunatic melodrama...