Word: stubbornly
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...attentive, loyal, stubborn, guarded...
...looking out over the next six months, its businesses will probably deteriorate further. With sharp personnel cuts and the sale of its video game operation, the fortunes at the world's largest software company could rapidly change and the stock could outperform the market. Of course, management may be stubborn and there may be no restructuring at all. (See pictures of Bill Gates: The Early Years...
Defiant or recklessly stubborn, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich on Friday vowed that he would not resign or temporarily step aside, saying he owed it to the voters of the state to remain in office despite polls showing some 80% want him out. "I will fight, I will fight, I will fight until I take my last breath," Blagojevich said to a packed news conference in Chicago's Loop. It was the first formal statement Blagojevich had made since being charged last week with trying to auction off President-Elect Barack Obama's Senate seat, among other alleged offenses...
...assembly line, Walt is as much an endangered species as the company he worked for. While he carefully maintains his house, white picket fence and all, the neighbors' homes have chipped paint and the sag of misuse. He's a cowboy stuck in the desolate Midwest, and instead of stubborn Indians and stud gunslingers, he's surrounded by Hispano-punks and Hmong immigrants from Southeast Asia. And now Tao (Bee Vang), a Hmong teen who's bullied by both ethnic groups, has broken into Walt's garage to steal the old man's most treasured possession: his 1972 Gran Torino...
...America needs to deliver a Marshall Plan to the Arab world - not in the form of money to rebuild war-torn cities but in the form of ideas to rebuild violence-torn minds. We have no alternative. In my yard there are stubborn patches of crabgrass. It's tempting to take a weed whacker and chop them down, but the crabgrass comes back twice as strong unless you get at its roots...