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The threesome of Harry, Ron Weasely, and Hermione Granger (who is likely to be everybody's favorite character) are believably mischievous, competitive, vain, and, for all their intelligence, prone to childish foolishness (e.g. the clever, studious Hermione's stubborn crush on the egotistical charlatan Professor Lockhart in Chamber of Secrets ).
That brought Gore from his raw score of 64 percent up to 73 percent , but it also brought Bradley up from his raw score of 84 percent to 86 percent , leaving a stubborn gap of 13 percentage points in Bradley's favor.
Both are stubborn.
In an article in the journal Science , an Intel scientist named Paul A. Packan reports that as silicon chips continue to shrink, their manufacturers are running up against stubborn physical limits for the first time--already, the smallest transistors have insulating layers only a few atoms thick.
Until recently I was more sympathetic to Explanation 2. But lately I have started to wonder whether the stubborn unwillingness of Japan's economic engine to catch is, as many foreigners seem to think, merely because the jump-start hasn't been big enough or sustained enough.