Word: persistence
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slip, and they'd just hand you one," says Skip Shipman, a florist in Woodstock, Ga., whose local bank was acquired by McColl in 1996. "Then NationsBank started charging a dollar for a deposit slip." After a wave of protests, the bank halted the practice last year. But complaints persist about other fees and services...
...true, undoubtedly, Clinton is in trouble. He will have committed perjury, and Ken Starr?s investigation -- long mired in arguments over immunity and executive privilege -- will have something to nail him on. But that's a big "if." Where Willey is concerned, questions persist: Why did Linda Tripp describe her as ?joyous? after her Oval Office encounter? Why did Willey continue to write Clinton and his personal assistant, Nancy Hernreich, in what sources describe as a ?consistently friendly and admiring manner? after he had supposedly assaulted her? Why does her Jones testimony contradict another sworn deposition, in a lawsuit against...
...this campaign, wages have increased, workers have paid holidays, drinking water and bathrooms are finally in some of the fields and the treatment of workers by the companies has slowly begun to improve. Much, however, remains to be done. Wages are still unjustifiably low, sexual harassment continues to persist in the fields and the vast majority of the workers, while still affected by the widespread use of pesticides, have no access to basic health care...
College journalism has a borrowed vice. Young men, getting a pen into their hands, use it recklessly in spite of the warning of good taste. They forget that they pretend to be gentlemen, hence unpleasant contests. Hard words, we believe, should be reserved for those cases where men willfully persist in wrong action. Such cases, it is needless to say, rarely occur in college. It is an evil of the same kind, though not of the same degree, to try to convince by epithets, as to have recourse to bowie-knife and revolver when the pen has failed...
...disclosure requirements, Feeney incorporated his foundations in Bermuda and sought no tax deductions. For years Forbes magazine listed him as one of the 400 richest Americans, even though he has reportedly bled his wealth of all but $5 million; Feeney abhors the list, but he let the fiction persist rather than betray his charity. Early in the year, a lawsuit over the sale by his foundation of its stake in DFS threatened to expose the scope of Feeney's giving. So he broke out of his cocoon, telling the New York Times, "Money has an attraction for some people...