Word: insist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seven years after the funding began, officials both at Monsanto and the University say the linkage has worked successfully and insist that the researchers have not compromised their integrity. Dr. M. Judah Folkman, Andrus Professor of Pediatric Surgery at the Med School and one of the principle researchers under the Monsanto grant, says that neither he nor the researchers in his lab have compromised their integrity and have felt "no pressure at all" to conduct research that will specifically result in profits for Monsanto...
Opposition to rent control is based on the belief that it discourages construction of new rental housing. Armstrong said, adding that since Section & money is used for new rental housing, giving it to cities with rent control would be "like bailing out a boat whose passengers insist on drilling holes in the hull...
...violence, has a new force. It contains a certain aggressive pride, expressed almost for the first time. The Viet Nam veterans may have been knocked off the tracks of their careers by two or three years; they may not have caught up yet with their peers, but they now insist that they are a resource for the nation, not an embarrassment. They are taking on positions of influence?many are, at least...
...just over $4,275 for an individual). A $1.4 billion reduction in federal spending for school lunches next year will, in the Republican interpretation, force families who can afford to pay for their children's meals to do so, while it benefits the "truly needy"; Democrats insist that the cut will end free or cheap lunches for millions of children who risk malnutrition without them...
...goose-necked creature sunning itself off the shore of Lake Champlain may look like an inflatable beach toy, but there are those who insist that Champ is a genuine sea monster. Amateur Photographer Sandra Mansi, for one. Four years ago, says Mansi, she snapped Champ with her Kodak Instamatic. To see if the photo had been doctored, it was sent to the University of Arizona Optical Sciences Center for close scrutiny. B. Roy Frieden, 44, professor of optical sciences, pronounced it see-worthy. But skeptics are nettled by a number of things: 1) the possibility of a nearby sand...