The providers are up against persistent discontent from subscribers who say their monthly bills are too high and their set-top boxes are too slow.
Dvorak wrote a sensitive piece about Kathryn (the Post used the family's middle names), who insisted from the age of two that something had gone wrong when she was in her mother's belly; about the parents' understandably reluctant decision to raise Kathryn as "Tyler"; and, more generally, about gender dysphoria, the persistent discontent with one's biological sex and body.
There were, nevertheless, persistent signs of discontent.
But the economy, he said, "is a persistent source of discontent," unlike the other two, which can ebb and flow depending on daily events.
European directives on a wide range of social, economic and judicial issues have been a persistent source of discontent among British voters generally and a cause of longstanding strife among Conservatives.
While Chelsea remain reluctant to sack Mourinho despite Saturday's defeat by Liverpool at Stamford Bridge, which left them in 15th place, 10 points off the top four and four above the teams in the relegation zone, there are indications that they will re-evaluate the position if the champions continue to struggle amid persistent rumours of discontent within the dressing room.
That's what the Buddha did long ago to free himself from his own discontent and persistent doubts about what he heard, day after day, from his parents, teachers, and the palace priests.
But with the two Democratic front-runners, Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, in general agreement on many of those issues, some say discontent over the persistent racial divide — along with anger among some black voters over criticism of Mr. Obama by former President Bill Clinton — will contribute to race-motivated voting on Saturday.
But another happens to be one the main causes of local discontent: high interest rates pushed up by persistent inflation of around 6% a year.
Yet their more tradition-minded elders have also moved that way, if in smaller numbers, reflecting the breadth of discontent with the country's direction and Washington's inability to act on persistent problems like health care and immigration policy.
BRUSSELS — Persistent low-level grumbling over efforts by the European Union to forge a unified foreign policy swelled into public discontent on Monday when its foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, faced several separate complaints from national capitals.
