Word: persistent
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Members of PSLM said they plan to continue activism as long as the labor conditions persist...
...East, the Fed stayed in line with expectations and officially took its eye off inflation, leaving interest rates alone but restoring its bias - the only sanctioned statement of what the Fed's own expectations are - to neutral. The Fed's explanation: "While some inflation risks persist, they are diminished by the more moderate pace of economic activity...
...await, at the very least, an automatic recount. Ever since, Gore has been cast in the role of sore loser whose congressional support could evaporate in an instant, a supplicant trying to win in court what he didn't win at the ballot box. And every day the media persist in calling the race anew. A reporter will read the latest polls showing that a majority of the American people don't mind waiting for a thorough recount and then open the next segment with the question "When, in the name of the American people, will this madness...
...Christopher, the man who put the elder in statesman. He's so dull, he ordered Irish coffee during a layover at Shannon Airport with the instruction, "Hold the whiskey, and make it decaf." His very presence undercuts former Secretary of State James Baker's dire warnings that if we persist in this crazy "unconstitutional" recount, markets will collapse, world leaders will wobble and general mischief will abound. In Baker's view, the bipartisan counters are secret croupiers itching to stack the deck. There are more surveillance cameras than in a Las Vegas casino and more on-site baby sitters than...
During his first term as Speaker, Democrats complained the ex-coach talked bipartisanship but didn't establish his own game plan. Suspicions persist that Hastert is a proxy for conservative Republican power brokers Dick Armey and Tom DeLay, both of whom were too nuclear to be elected Speaker following the impeachment debacle. Indeed, DeLay appeared to sweep in and hijack the budget negotiations two weeks ago. But Hastert gruffly dismisses such talk, and last week he was acting very much like a man in charge. While partisans burned with each Florida ballot count, Hastert quietly phoned Democratic whip David Bonior...