Word: steadfastly
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...that for years they have been touting their war records as a way to show how much they can be trusted on national defense. During the primary campaign for California's Democratic gubernatorial nomination, former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein said that as a woman she would be more steadfast in her support of abortion than her pro-choice male opponent. For that temerity, she was called sexist. The New York Times editorialized that such stereotyping was "precisely the kind of bias that women have fought against for years." (Unsuccessfully, the paper should have added.) One might think that women...
...purely financial background, made sweeping strategic moves that included launching Saturn and spending billions of dollars on high-tech robotics and such acquisitions as Electronic Data Systems and Hughes Aircraft. Stempel, by contrast, is an authentic "car guy." His most important attribute may be his reputation as a steadfast team player, since almost everyone agrees that GM's challenge now is to better motivate its work force (total employees...
...story of Anthony Romano, last year's PBHA president, cannot be understood without acknowledging the earnestness of his response. To his friends, Romano remains steadfast in his convictions about social equity, but conveys them with a seriousness that refutes any charge of triviality...
Even so, opponents are steadfast. James Shannon, the attorney general of Massachusetts, plans to appeal the decision in federal court. Nuclear power opponents contend that the decision represents no rebirth for the industry, since the plant's cost overruns have prompted hefty rate increases for consumers in New England...
There is no special shame in not being the world's greatest nation. The Swiss and the Swedes lead happy lives. Perhaps, having remained steadfast for four decades of cold war, we have done enough. Prosperous isolation has genuine appeal. But it is embarrassing to hear a President proclaim, as Bush did in his State of the Union speech, that "America stands at the center of a widening circle of freedom," with so little to back it up. Surely the transformation of communism to capitalism, totalitarianism to democracy is the great adventure of the next generation. Do we want...