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• n  a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals
• a  continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place
  permanent secretary to the president
  permanent address
  literature of permanent value
• s  not capable of being reversed or returned to the original condition
  permanent brain damage

• Thus the permanent wave was born.
• NASA and the Soviets reach for a permanent foothold in space "The next logical step": that is what NASA planners are calling their dream of a permanent manned.
• Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has built homes, pavilions and churches, some of them permanent, using little more than cardboard tubes.

• permanent wave
• perm
• lasting

• impermanent

News & Articles

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• Miles College role in Civil Rights Movement has created a permanent legacy
  Miles College students and faculty played a big role in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham in the 1960s, and this legacy of leadership has made a permanent mark on the school, increasing its prestige and serving as a tool for the recruitment of students.
  July 7, 2013 - Birmingham News
• LEMA's eclectic display
  Donated and purchased works of art from Lake Eustis Museum of Art's permanent collection will be the next exhibition, which opens with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the museum, 1 W. Orange Ave., in Ferran Park in downtown Eustis.        
  July 7, 2013 - Orlando Sentinel
• Correction: UN-Syria story
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — In a story July 3 about the U.N. Security Council failing to agree on an appeal for access to the Syrian city of Homs, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Austria co-circulated the draft press statement. The draft was circulated by Australia, a non-permanent council member.
  July 6, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• President Bush in Boston Globe (registration)
  McCain "is very strong on national defense," Bush said on "Fox News Sunday." "He is tough fiscally. He believes the tax cuts ought to be permanent. He is prolife. His principles are sound and solid as far as I'm concerned."
• Tony Hayward in UPI.com
  Our commitment to the gulf states is for the long-term,he said. "And that requires a more permanent sustainable organization to see it through."
• Hillary Rodham Clinton in Business Mirror
  Clinton, in excerpts of her speech, said "irreversible steps" by North Korea to scrap its nuclear-weapons program may lead to "full normalization of relations, a permanent peace regime, and significant energy and economic assistance."