Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), the patients consult their physicians. More often than not, after a test or two, the doctors agree with the diagnosis and prescribe a restrictive, highprotein, low-carbohydrate diet with frequent feedings. Indeed, hypoglycemia has reached epidemic proportions. Now some doctors are raising warning flags. They insist that the malady is largely illusory...
...excruciating tension arises from the knowledge of that truth. While I sometimes wish I could blithely insist that I am before all else a colorless and genderless "person,"--as I did in my lily-white, predominantly-male high school activities: I am ever conscious of the ways racism asserts itself in even the friendliest relations between white and Black people. I therefore find myself caught too often between two sides of a dispute, seeing the logic and the idiocy of both points of view, knowing that in the world of people and ideas, there are no absolutes, no "black...
...officials insist that in the next two months as many as 50 of the 142 countries invited to Moscow will decide not to go; so far only 25 nations have endorsed the boycott. Much depends on how fast the boycotters can organize their alternate games, which Cutler calls the "WorldClass International Sports Festival." He envisions a series of events next August and September in a number of locales around the world. Funding for the games, however, will be difficult to obtain. Cutler claims that revenues from TV coverage could help, but executives at NBC and ABC decline...
...crime-plagued Dorchester section of Boston. Of the 1,200 cases heard in Dorchester's storefront Urban Court Program so far, 89% were settled there without having to be put before a judge. No one is forced to participate; either party in a dispute may insist on having his case heard in a conventional court. Those who decide to try the program sit down with two mediators-community members who are paid $7.50 a session for this part-time work and are trained to handle disputes coolly. Says Urban Court Mediation Supervisor Delia Rice: "We choose people we feel...
...other homosexuals remain touchy about the idea that gays consciously seek danger. They insist that only between 1% and 5% of homosexuals lean toward leather. Says Charles Brydon, co-director of the National Gay Task Force: "There just is not any evidence that gays are into S-M any more than straights are." Though they admit that activities at the bars are remarkably exotic, gays insist that the possibility of bringing home a dangerous sex partner is remote...