While Mr. Meeks, 47, inherited from Mr. Flake the promise of a vibrant downtown Jamaica, he and other Queens and city government officials also face the stubborn reality of persistent poverty and blight in other parts of the district, including South Jamaica and the Rockaways, where the quest for economic development has felt to many something akin to waiting for Godot.
Despite smog, urban blight, the persistent poverty of migrant workers and other challenges, my impression is that the Chinese seem happier over all.
But the thing guaranteed to incense them more than anything else is the blight of the persistent, uninvited garden pest.
Its success was blighted, however, by persistent accusations of plagiarism by Peter Fischli and David Weiss, the creators of The Way Things Go (1987).
For the city, the program offers an ideal solution to one of its most persistent problems: how to deal with urban blight.
And as I have wandered around Barbados over the last months, thinking about the connections between the lives of my parents, blighted by prejudice, and the persistent economic, social and cultural poverty that still bedevils Barbados, I believe more and more in the legitimacy of reparations claims.
But three blights on black America have proved persistent: violent crime, family breakdown and a failure by black children to fulfil their academic potential.Crime doesn't pay"If you were black," said the cabdriver, "I wouldn't take you there.
She reeled off a list of blights and funguses that can spread through persistent moisture.
It is interesting to watch people who had never before manifested symptoms of vanity suddenly spending hours in front of mirrors, cursing the insidious corroders of youth: the deep-purple leg blight, the canker of the receding hairline and the plague of the persistent pounds.
For example, the persistent identifier (DOI) of just the highest collection level of datasets associated with an article can be therein cited, avoiding citation blight.
