The first sentence is your best choice.
The answer is: something that continues to happen
The simple present tense, particularly, refers to an action that occurs regularly, as a habit or routine, or something that is always true. It is usually used with adverbs of frequency (such as always, sometimes or never) or time expressions which indicate how often the action happens. For example:
<em>I go to school </em><u><em>everyday</em></u><em>.</em>
<em>I </em><u><em>never</em></u><em> play computer games in the evening.</em>
The law that banned discrimination in all public facilities is the <span>Civil Rights act of 1964. This landmark civil rights legislation was signed into law by then current president Lyndon B. Johnson.</span>
According to grammar rules and most style books, you would hyphenate all compound numbers from twenty-one to ninety-nine. Therefore the correct answer is b, ninety-eight.
During the Civil War (1861-1865), the number of casualties and deaths were greater than our nation's losses in all other wars, from the American Revolution through Vietnam.
