Word: insist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite these house-based academic elements,students continue to look to their departments forintellectual concerns. Part of the problem lies inthe fact that the large number of concentrationsmakes it impossible for houses to have a residenttutor in every field. In addition, manydepartments insist that the graduate student orprofessor who teaches an undergraduate's tutorialsign his or her study card. As a result, studentssay they have become accustomed to going to theirdepartment office for academic advice...
Many Harvard students are intrigued by classmates who insist on breaking into worthwhile discussion in order to excitedly point out the most unarguable, obvious aspects of the subject. Furthermore, there is general confusion on why a large group of Harvard undergraduates tend to reflect on their own accomplishments with the same reverence that is normally reserved for octogenarians remembering the "good old days...
...start on ozone. It calls on most signatory countries to reduce production and consumption of CFCs by 50% by 1999. Developing nations, however, will be allowed to increase their use of the chemicals for a decade so they can catch up in basic technologies like refrigeration. The net effect, insist the treaty's advocates, will be a 35% reduction in total CFCs by the turn of the century...
...observers would insist that such opportunism is, in Tocqueville's word, noble. Yet not many would feel it wrong to cash in on otherwise profitless situations. Perhaps crass, tacky or vulgar (as in the latest Jim & Tammy enterprise: Area Code 900 Dial-the-Bakkers taped messages that might bring as much as $100,000 a month from the 25 cents they get for every $1.50 toll a phoning fan must pay), but not immoral...
Even cyclists admit that some bike riders act like pit bulls on wheels, but enthusiasts attribute most accidents to impatient walkers, many of whom insist on waiting in crosswalks for the light to change. "Most pedestrians don't look before they cross the street," says Eric Williams, a Manhattan messenger. "I've pulled so hard to stop that I've got scars to prove...