Word: insist
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...years. But the downward revisions seem to some experts to be at odds with recommendations from the National Cancer Institute and with a 1982 report from the academy itself urging Americans to eat more foods rich in vitamins A and C as a possible hedge against cancer. Others, however, insist that the reductions are soundly based on the latest scientific evidence and bring the U.S. into line with other countries. Many nutritionists point out that there is plenty of leeway in the RDA figures; even the proposed levels are established above the minimum needed to prevent nutritional deficiencies. Besides, RDAs...
...flatness of the people's lives in Wildrose matches the flatness of the film's characters. The small town is populated with a familiar cast of bar sleazes, unemployed drunks, old women watching from their front porches, and male chauvinist breadwinners who insist that a woman's place is in the home. The mine crew, affectionately referred to as "pit-rats", sit around cracking obscene jokes and generally giving June a hard time for doing "a man's work." While sexism is a given condition of the hard lifestyle that June assumes, it is repeatedly a one-sided charge...
...peacemakers. That certainly is Reagan's interpretation. "I do think that this is a continuation of a longtime campaign," he remarked at his press conference, "to build an impression that we may be the villains of the piece and that they're the good guys." State Department officials insist that Soviet rhetoric has not been backed by concrete proposals. Said one top analyst: "We haven't seen anything in their hints that is different from a pure propaganda campaign...
Educators have been slow to ask for a better balance in how such controversial topics are handled or to insist on better writing throughout the books. In 1974 the California board decided that discussion of creation dogma belonged in social studies classes, not science classes. But it was not until 1983 that the state finally drafted specific guidelines that require full text treatment of natural selection, mutation and adaptation. In Texas, third behind California and New York in text purchases (5.5%), the state school board last year reversed a policy that evolution be taught as only one of several theories...
California officials insist that their ukase to publishers is not a rebuff to religion but an endorsement of interesting, up-to-date books. The state is also demanding improved presentation of historical subjects like the Holocaust, which publishers have tiptoed around. "The publishers will publish the books we want if we are clear about what we want," says Honig. As the textbook makers considered ways to meet these sterner standards, there was a growing sense among educators that the demands of the big spenders might start to cure the affliction of simplistic books in U.S. classrooms...