So, to put this in human terms: a mother whose child has persistent, uncontrolled asthma has a zero or near-zero chance of being rejected by a doctor if the child has private insurance.
Hall said there is no history of any kind of cancer in her family, but her physician has been persistent.
Menino, who used a cane to walk to the podium, has had persistent health problems including a six-week hospital stay last year to treat a respiratory infection and a compression fracture in his spine.
Healthcare chaplains tend to people at the most vulnerable time in their lives, but they are paid for out of the same NHS budget that funds doctors, nurses, medicine and equipment, and there has been persistent concern that hard-pressed health trusts may see them as dispensable.
The European economists say that inflation has become less persistent over time, as monetary policy has become concentrated on price stability and on keeping inflationary expectations low.
In several public statements, with one as recent as Monday, Sony has said the persistent downtime was due to an "external intrusion, " but has not provided a target date for when services will return.
On this battleground, where the bigger picture can be conveniently forgotten, it has proven remarkably persistent.
Underlying all the mistakes of which Autonomy is the latest example, there has been the persistent inability of the board to actually define the company it manages.
For example, Gov. Chris Christie has been a persistent critic of the state's practice of sending more aid to 31 districts identified by courts as being particularly poor or underfunded.
Terry, 28, has responded to persistent reports linking him with a transfer by releasing a statement on the club's official Web site in which he insists he has never contemplated leaving the London side.
The reason, he says, is the difficulty of solving some of the issues that have led to the macro-dominated markets, such as the U.S. budget deficit and economic overcapacity that has resulted in persistent high unemployment rates.
There has also been persistent speculation by historians that during World War II, Pope Pius XII drew up a document stating that if he were to be kidnapped by the Nazis he was to be considered to have resigned, and a successor should be chosen.
This persistent weakness has certainly surprised and knocked the teeth out of retail investors and professional traders alike.
Since they were dropped onto the ice at the end of February, the survey team's progress has been hampered by persistent storms.
This persistent idea has its origins in the Enlightenment, but was fixed in the public consciousness by two popular works of the Nineteenth Century.
As you can see, the overall trend is clear: Russian unemployment has been on a persistent downward trend from over 8% to right around 5.5%.
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The government's answer to years of persistent inflation has been price controls and Mercal, a state-owned and subsidised grocery chain that offers a limited selection of staples at discounts of up to 40%.
Dr Green points out that since the job loss in Ohio has been long and persistent, over 20 or 25 years, it is difficult to come up with the policy solution that is going to appeal to voters.
Both the SEC and the exchanges use the data to determine whether a stock has high enough and persistent enough trade settlement failures to warrant including it on a list of similar securities for which special trading restrictions are supposed to kick in.
It's one of the areas where the Sunni-led insurgency has been at its most persistent.
But taken together, this "bold, persistent experimentation" has brought our economy back from the brink.
This second approach appears to be what the BOE, with the government's enthusiastic blessing, has been pursuing by tolerating persistent above-target inflation.
They found some of the sites under construction almost completely surrounded by water from the flooding that has followed two days of persistent rain.
The team will be again be led by Ricky Ponting, who missed the recent series against Bangladesh after undergoing a wrist operation and opener Matthew Hayden has been included despite a persistent Achilles tendon problem.
Romney has grit, he is persistent.
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He has been troubled by a persistent hamstring injury and, more significantly for the team, remains at the centre of a destabilising transfer saga after handing in a transfer request prior to the game at Old Trafford only to withdraw it two weeks later.
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Ranchers and farmers have complained for years about the damage feral pigs can cause, but federal and state officials said the loss of crops, the spread of noxious weeds as the pigs carry seeds to new spots and the stress they put on endangered species and other wildlife is now worse due to a persistent drought that has hammered two-thirds of the country.
The persistent war on cash has more to do with moralistic society than it does with civil society as Wolman claims.
Immigration advocates insist that this huge surge of cheap labor has nothing to do with the persistent decline in wages that began about the same time.
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