Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Amidst the controversy and criticism, ETS officials, confused about why their industry has recently taken so much abuse, try to remain calm. They admit many flaws in testing exist, but insist that most of the serious shortcomings lie in people's use of the test. In college and graduate school admissions they say tests are only useful when used in conjunction with high school transcripts and other materials. Many find it convenient to place more emphasis on the test than they had intended, they say. "Tests are the most valid measure that anyone's devised," Churchill says...
Reagan's problem is largely age--but not so much biologically as rhetorically and ideologically. He speaks from a creaking, World War II perspective; his rhetoric has a rusty edge to it--broadcast from a different, simpler day when things didn't insist on being complicated. In New Hampshire, it may prevail but in the real world, it is losing its appeal...
...week's end Kennedy conceded, quite lamely, that he could not "claim authorship" of the commission proposal and indeed that it had "been around for months" before his Georgetown speech. But he continued to insist that the Administration had rejected the proposal until he began prodding. That appears at best an overstatement...
...biggest in the two-year-old Government investigation of oil-company pricing. Last December, Getty signed a $75 million consent decree; in the preceding 22 months, settlements with a number of companies, including Kerr-McGee, Cities Service, Gulf, Mobil and Phillips, totaled less than $690 million. Although the firms insist that the DOE'S pricing regulations are contradictory, confusing and capricious, the profit-rich energy companies are unlikely to attract much sympathy. Amoco's earnings jumped 70% in the last quarter of 1979 and 40% over the full year. Said Energy Securities Analyst David Snow of A.G. Becker...
...courts for basketball and volleyball. There are barbershops for the boys and hairdressing salons for girls, most of whom are coiffed with intricate "corn-row" braids. On Sundays there are bus trips to nearby beaches or sightseeing tours of the island. Sex is not a problem, the teachers insist. "They are told the facts of life, but there is no formal sex education as such," said a Mozambican instructor. Girls are free to talk with women teachers about the problems of puberty. "They have biology classes," said a Namibian ideologue, "but as elsewhere in the world, the kids...