• If persistent, this trend amounts to a catastrophe for an industry that holds its most valuable assets neither in gold vaults nor in brand value, but in brainpower.

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  • But it could also, if vigorously persistent, end up doing in the deal through interminable delays.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • If a persistent shift in raw material prices occurs, Coca-Cola is able to pass the impact along to the consumers.

    FORBES: Buying Bottler Gives Coke Profit Upside

  • The former North Dakota tax commissioner is nothing if not persistent.

    FORBES: Sen. Kent Conrad Builds a Case Against Tax Subsidies

  • But we knew -- we also knew this: If we were willing to act wisely and with unity, and if we were persistent and we stayed at it, if we were willing to roll up our sleeves, if we were determined not to quit, then we could come back stronger than before.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • If taken with persistent weakness in consumer confidence, still below the level historically associated with sustained increases in personal consumption.

    FORBES: GDP Still Below Par, Leans On Inventory

  • You teach them that no matter what life throws their way, if they draw on their own talent and courage and creativity, if they are persistent and tenacious and bold -- bold, right?

    WHITEHOUSE: First Lady Honors Honors National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award Recipients | The White House

  • Programming experience is not required "if you are smart and persistent, " but it will certainly be easier if you have some, according to the Pi website.

    ENGADGET: Cambridge University helps new Raspberry Pi users break the crust with free guide, tutorials

  • "It's difficult to watch these videos and not sense that their popularity has something to do with a persistent, if unconscious, desire to see black people perform, " Aisha Harris wrote Tuesday for Slate.

    CNN: Why the Web loves Cleveland hero Charles Ramsey

  • The organization is battling persistent, if thus far unsuccessful, legal attacks on the Master Settlement Agreement by smaller tobacco companies, who say it is an anticompetitive scheme that allowed the big manufacturers to raise prices indiscriminately.

    FORBES: The House Tobacco Built

  • These portraits, several of which are in the show, provoke the persistent question: if his sitters can't stay awake for the painter, why should we?

    ECONOMIST: Leon Kossoff

  • His orders were to count to 10 and then tell me if he was still getting persistent clean UHF signal, which meant the descent stage wouldn't have fallen back on the rover.

    BBC: Space - the new rock and roll

  • The spokesman added that a "close eye" would be kept on the situation, especially in the area downstream of Oxford, where the flood risk would be the greatest if there is heavy and persistent rainfall.

    BBC: Flood warnings remain in many areas

  • Samin Sharma, a cardiologist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, say she thinks most doctors would opt to use Cypher if it weren't for persistent manufacturing problems that can make the device harder for doctors to get.

    FORBES: Studies Give Edge To J&J Stent

  • In October, the full NCAA board will decide whether to formally adopt the proposed new anti-violence rules, and even if they do, they will only succeed if advocates nationwide are vocal and persistent about demanding that Emmert take a similarly strong stand against all sexual violence, not only scandals that rise to a level of virtual child sex trafficking.

    FORBES: Penn State Sanctions Too Little, But Good Start

  • If anything, the authors conclude, persistent smoking may increase rather than decrease the rate of onset of dementia.

    BBC: Smoking 'does not prevent Alzheimer's'

  • The positive numbers could lead to rate hikes in the near-term if Russia is serious about eliminating its persistent inflation threat.

    FORBES: Russia Economy Looking Better; Unemployment Drops to 6.4%

  • With much less to gain in damage awards, lawyers acting for cities or private plaintiffs are likely to be far less persistent in pursuing gun makers if, as looks certain, they fight back with determination.

    ECONOMIST: Gun lawsuits

  • And he would still be alive, she claims, if the biotech had not experienced severe and persistent quality control problems that led to a subsequent rationing program ( read here).

    FORBES: Shire Ends Fabry Drug Bid, Giving Sanofi A Boost

  • If you have evidence of arthritis in the knee, persistent or recurrent knee pain, or history of a previous knee injury, this does not necessarily mean that you can't jog at all.

    CNN: Will jogging hurt an obese person's joints?

  • Additional trials are ongoing to see if Provigil eases the fatigue suffered by cancer patients, or lightens persistent depression.

    FORBES: Cephalon Needs A Jolt

  • "Senator Kerry denounces American action when other countries don't approve -- as if the whole object of our foreign policy were to please a few persistent critics, " Cheney said.

    CNN: Cheney, accepting party's nod, hails Bush's actions

  • Everyone should be alert to the signs and symptoms of cancer - such as weight loss, persistent pain and lumps and bumps and visit their GP immediately if they have concerns.

    BBC: Patient receiving chemotherapy

  • The powers conferred nearly always include the power to forgo or terminate medical care if, in the opinion of your physician, you are in a persistent vegetative state without hope of recovery, and medical care would only artificially delay your death.

    FORBES: Estate Planning Overview and Objectives

  • With several racist incidents making headlines in the past calendar year, UEFA is also prepared to punish supporters' racist behavior by closing sections of football grounds -- or, if need be, all of the stadium -- in cases of persistent fan abuse.

    CNN: UEFA wants 10-match bans for racist abuse

  • Your health care durable power of attorney should express whether you wish to receive medical care if, in the opinion of your physician, you are in a persistent vegetative state without hope of recovery, and medical care would only artificially delay your death.

    FORBES: Estate Planning Overview and Objectives

  • This dependence on incarceration was linked to the belief that street crime is committed by persistent "high-rate" offenders who will continue to offend if they are not locked up.

    WSJ: Stopping Urban Crime Without Jail Time

  • The most important message, I guess I would tell you, though, is what I tell my daughters, which is that America remains a country where if you work hard and you don't give up and you are persistent, you can succeed.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • If you believe in something or you have a passion about something you must be persistent and you can never give up.

    WHITEHOUSE: Following My Purpose

  • No doubt there will be some benefits: fraud, in particular the persistent and increasingly annoying problem of identity theft, might be substantially reduced if biometric-identification systems, introduced in the form of passports, visas and identity cards, become widespread.

    ECONOMIST: BIOMETRICS

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