One reason is the persistently low turnout of voters for school board elections - under 10 percent last year.

These persistently low purchases from abroad, the report said, reflect the existence of "invisible barriers" to trade in Japan.

Still, the persistently low prices, combined with the huge number of plants producing aluminum have kept prices and profits low.

Summers are relatively mild, due to Thoreau's high elevation and persistently low humidities.

Another thing we are going to have to get used to in our low growth but volatile world is persistently low interest rates.

They point to the Holy Rosary school's persistently low enrollment, which currently hovers around 130 students.

The schools is on the state's list of 144 persistently low achievement - failing schools.

Septic shock is severe sepsis plus persistently low blood pressure following the administration of intravenous fluids.

One of the main reasons for this unfortunate budgetary situation has been the persistently low rate of economic growth in Europe.

Above 60 degrees latitude (north or south), no debris was found to carry organisms, probably because of the persistently low water temperatures.