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Word: insist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long as individual Faculty members are themselves convinced that the grading system carries particular socio-economic implications, each member of the Faculty should have the right to decide whether he wishes to use grades in his own course. The Faculty as a body has no more right to insist that a professor grade his students' work than it has to demand that he include a particular book on his course's reading list...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grades and Academic Freedom | 3/5/1969 | See Source »

...franc's parity at 20 U.S. cents, but devaluation may be difficult to avoid if, as is likely, French unions demand inflationary wage increases next month. One danger is that De Gaulle, if forced to devalue, might not stop at a reasonable 10% change in parity but insist capriciously on 20% or more. That would give France an enormous trading advantage, and force a competitive devaluation of other currencies. As David Rockefeller, president of the Chase Manhattan Bank, said in London last week, the franc is "the key currency. If you could guarantee that nothing will happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: WESTERN EUROPE: MARK OF WORRY | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...chosen to regard as the Faculty's support of ROTC at Harvard, the Corporation appears to be setting itself up as the committee which the CEP would have formed within the Faculty: the Corporation is now "enabled" to negotiate changes in the ROTC system here, but may insist only on such changes as the military is willing to accept...

Author: By David I. Bruck, | Title: Pusey's Letter | 2/25/1969 | See Source »

...they"Couples who insist. fight "A fight a together, day stay keeps togeth the doctor away." The only catch is that couples must fight fairly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marriage: Fight Together, Stay Together | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...Osservatore Romano have already objected to recently introduced divorce legislation, and Vatican officials have privately made it clear that the papacy is not likely to move an inch on .this issue. The only concession might be to permit civil divorce for purely civil marriages. Rome may also continue to insist on mandatory religious instruction in public schools despite the objections of Italian Protestants and Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vatican: Revising | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

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