They also find evidence that flexibility is associated with lower rates of unfilled vacancies and with lower persistence of unemployment over time.

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And doing all of that took time and patience, and most of all, it took persistence.

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Yet the wonder of his achievement is that it's deeply serious and blissfully funny at the same time, because it's also about yearning and desire, fantastic flights of language, the persistence of hope and the possibility of healing love.

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