Word: persistence
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sources. For all Humphrey's attempts at Trumanesque aggressiveness, his campaign still has an air of nervous uncertainty about it. Well it might. Grave problems of financing and organization persist. The Vice President's financial sources dried up after Robert Kennedy's assassination; many of his backers had contributed out of their fear of R.F.K.'s attitudes toward businessmen. Only recently have the funds begun to flow again, mostly from New York. While Nixon has jammed prime-time with television announcements, Humphrey plaintively told California students last week: "I haven't been able to afford...
...frequently takes a more conservative view of monetary matters than the Washington board, let word leak out that it was miffed at the timing. By week's end, only the Richmond Reserve Bank had followed Minneapolis' lead. Still, few if any bankers really expected the holdouts to persist over a very long period of time...
...bring about sweeping reforms. Province chiefs, who hold important positions in the patronage system, are appointed by the President. Thieu has sacked 16 of them, but Huong would clearly like to see more relieved. So, too, would Thieu, but competent replacements are hard to find. Old avenues of corruption persist as well. Draft exemptions can still be bought: it costs only $425 to become a secret-police agent or $250 to join the Regional Forces and thus escape regular army service. And big names still enjoy protection. Not long ago, an ARVN colonel was charged with corruption...
Independent Course. After three years in office, Ceauşescu feels secure enough in his position to persist in his independent course while simultaneously moving toward more liberalization in Rumania's tightly controlled society. Defying Kremlin directives, Rumania has maintained cordial relations with both China and Israel, in Soviet eyes the Middle East aggressor. Recently, Rumania balked at joining fellow Warsaw Pact members in signing the Moscow-Washington nuclear-proliferation draft treaty, arguing that it failed to protect small nations from nuclear blackmail by larger powers...
...girl may postpone reading the tome once in the reading room, so sometimes the RNA message is not immediately utilized in the cytoplasm. On the other hand, the girl may fall in love with the book and decide to carry it with her forever. Likewise, the RNA messages may persist in the cytoplasm and be read over and over again. Kafatos adds that the critical choice may lie at any of these levels. If we discover where and when the choice occurs concerning what the cell will do, we may be able to understand how a cell specializes and ultimately...