Word: insist
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...this instance, the issue did not involve research directly; the bill was aimed at nuclear power plants. But a significant portion of bio medical research is used to generate such waste. The bill actually exempts such research, but universities insist that provision is useless. If all other waste disposal is curbed, then universities would have to establish their own facilities--a fiscally infeasible proposition, they say. "If we are deprived of a place to dump we could see large cutbacks in research," says Jacob Shapiro, radiological health and safety engineer to the University Health Services, and a nationally known expert...
...side would be free to raise matters of concern to it, and we would take measures to stop those things that worry the U.S. But of course we would also hope that in response the U.S. would stop the activities that it has launched against our country. We would insist on reciprocity...
Reagan may not have a racist bone in his body, as his aides insist, but his philosophical antipathy to federal activism, whether it takes the form of social spending or statutory redress, is at odds with the kind of government leadership that blacks have come to expect. His budget cuts were felt most immediately by the nation's poor, who are disproportionately black. He flirted with the idea of weakening the Voting Rights Act until a political fire storm changed his mind, and until recently was criticized for lax enforcement of fair housing laws. William Bradford Reynolds, the Assistant...
Montana Wildlife Biologists John and Frank Craighead, perhaps the foremost authorities on the grizzly, insist that the answer is for the Park Service to drop its "forever wild" doctrine, at least as far as bears are concerned. In the early 1970s, at the height of their quarrel with the federal authorities, the 66-year-old twin brothers angrily quit their grizzly studies in Yellowstone. Says John: "It's fine to say that you want a pristine, pre-Columbian setting, but it won't work in Yellowstone [which had 2.4 million visitors last year]. Man is a definite part...
Gandhi represents 20th century politics' closest brush with sainthood. Yet in this season of celebrating his character, little attention has been given to his context. Or rather, the wrong attention. The usual objection raised against Gandhi is: What would he have done against France? It is important to insist on the right question, because to say that Gandhi would have failed against the radical and unique evil of Nazi Germany is to say merely that he would have failed against history's exception (and done no worse than much of a heavily armed and decidedly non-pacifist Europe...