Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...absence of legislative action, however, parents may request that their sons repeat a grade, and school officials are bound to comply with their wishes. Often following the lead of high school coaches who have held their own sons back, parents insist that their young footballers need an extra year of "maturity" before entering high school. Douglas Griffin, superintendent of schools in Murray County, Ga., recalls, "Our high school basketball coach held his son back in the eighth grade, and he ended up getting a college scholarship. After that, it kind of snowballed." Adds Griffin, who held his own football-playing...
...Despite what some Harvard professors and students insist on believing," he says, "intellectual life is alive and well in the provinces." --Wendy L. Wall...
Postal Subsidies. Congress created the semi-independent U.S. Postal Service in 1970, expecting that it eventually would become self-sufficient. Instead it kept running deficits, despite frequent hikes of its rates for delivering the mail. Not until last year did Congress insist on cutting its annual subsidy of $920 million by 10%. Now Reagan proposes to take another $632 million from the subsidy in 1982. The initial cuts would mainly affect county post offices and rural deliveries, as well as low-cost mass mailings by charitable institutions and churches. One endangered service: Saturday deliveries...
...Senator Charles Percy, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, vowed that "this nation will do whatever is necessary to prevent a Communist takeover in El Salvador." He added: "We are prepared to draw the line here, here and now." Nevertheless, Percy warned Haig that the U.S. must also insist that the junta step up its search for the murderers of three American nuns and a lay religious worker killed in El Salvador last December...
Most Americans dislike city life and insist upon having parks and open spaces in metropolises, a leading landscape architect yesterday told an audience of about 100 at the Graduate School of Design...