1) despite the heavy rain,the television reporter, accompanied by her loyal film crew, was willing to wait outside the hotel until the delegates finished their meeting. _ 2)vanessa had a tendency to change her mind often, so often in fact that her friends gave up expecting her to show up at their parties. _ 3)in 1988 a soviet icebreaking ship helped free three gray whales that had become trapped in the arctic ice after they had swum into the coastal waters of alaska to feed. _ 4) as a distinct body of writing, mexican american literature is relatively young, having taken shape only after the conclusion of the mexican war in 1848.