91.   Others, like Peter L. Bernstein, an economic consultant, say the sluggish economic growth of the last six months will persist for many months.

92.   Or whether the slow growth, like water torture, will persist for months, hurting the next president as unemployment gradually rises and wages stagnate.

93.   Philip Lieberman of Brown University thinks that an apelike throat persisted for some time in our hominid ancestors.

94.   PCBs persist for decades in the environment, and can be taken up by fish and other organisms.

95.   Pollen symptoms tend to persist for one month to two months, for example.

96.   Rumors of such taboo experiments being conducted in China, Italy and the United States have persisted for years, but have never been acknowledged.

97.   Rumors of its survival persisted for months, until investigators sensed that the story was much more than yet another urban myth to rise from the disaster site.

98.   Researchers also have evidence that women may contract autoimmune diseases because of cells from their fetuses that persisted for decades after crossing the placenta.

99.   Rivalries blossom and persist for months during a season instead of weeks.

100.   Since the Northern Hemisphere blockings can persist for several weeks to a month, the unusual Southern cold may last that long as well.