Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...market soared? Low inflation, cost-conscious management and endless global opportunities for U.S. companies have played a huge role. Those things will persist. But our limitless affection for technology, blind faith in index funds and grossly underappreciated sense of stock-market risk are part of the equation too. And those things will pass. It was only 10 years ago that we stretched reason to justify Japanese stocks' trading at 70 or 100 times earnings--just ahead of that country's enduring recession. Today's most popular stocks trade in that range, and tortured explanations again pass for wisdom...
...make things worse, am not even sure on which side civilization lies. If I were a state's Governor, I would have to choose one or the other on certain midnights of the year when executioners awaited my go-ahead. As it is, I have the luxury to persist in ambivalence, going case by case, preserving the option of the noose...
...anti-intellectual, self-absorbed and void of inspiration. The music, which has barely moved beyond its foundations of anger, violence and misogyny, now wallows in materialism. Hip-hop needs to be more responsible. A people cannot progress so long as its icons persist in celebrating depravity. SUSAN MCWETHY Atlanta...
...JENNR8R is a quantity that will persist forever. If I were a physicist, I would say, JENNR8R has a half-life of infinity, because JENNR8R has a total life of infinity. Do you understand what I am saying? If I spoke English, I would say forever, that is how long, we will live. And survive. And our fame will last, forever. Forever...
Students who feel sick should check their temperatures; should a fever persist for more than 24 hours, students should check in with UHS for an examination, Rosenthal advised...