Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, job, wage, pension and insurance inequities persist. "We've come a long way, but we have a long way to go," says Rose Bird, former chief justice of the California Supreme Court. "It's part of our heritage to rectify past injustices, and the Constitution is no exception." Without an ERA, some feminists argue, the American charter will continue to bear the sexist imprint of a document written...
Americans tend to ignore other culturaldifferences, he added. "You ask us to meetings atbreakfast. We really loathe meetings at breakfast,"he said. "And yet you persist...
...whose parent company, RCA, was bought by General Electric in June, News President Lawrence Grossman insists there are no plans to cut his $230 million budget or 1,330-member staff. Nonetheless, NBC News has hired McKinsey & Co. management consultants to study the newsgathering operations, and rumors ( persist that next year will bring a 10% slash...
...They loaned the money against the collateral, the Triad Center," he says. "Now they hear rumors about my cash-flow problems and call the loans. I am not going to bring in cash from other businesses to pay the bankers. The collateral is all they will get if they persist." In Salt Lake City, Khashoggi was regarded as a hero for ten years; now he is branded a fraud. "If he is the richest man in the world and he is flying around in a gilded plane," says Mayor Palmer Depaulis, "why isn't he paying his debts here...
...Fujitsu, Japan's top computermaker, profits fell 79%. Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Japan's leading business newspaper, last month reported that for the first time since 1975, Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric and Fuji Electric planned temporary layoffs, shocking workers and managers in the industry. The companies denied the report, but rumors persist. Says Daisaku Kodama, an Osaka-based subcontractor for Matsushita Electric Industrial: "There have been other recessions. But this is the first time we have questioned our own survival...