Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will if we have to. Door-to-door delivery is essential to our survival as an advertiser-supported student publication. We promise it and advertisers insist on it, since it is our main advantage over publications like the Square Deal. We can deliver Harvard; outsiders can't. Advertisers know that free publications must either be passed out individually by hand (like the Square Deal) or delivered to the doors of people's residences (like the Cambridge Tab) if they are to be read at all. Busy Harvard students--like most people--rarely spend the effort to pick up and take...
...variation of the vacuum aspirations used in medical clinics. A thin plastic tube is first inserted through the cervix into the uterus. Then the uterine lining, along with an embedded fertilized egg, is suctioned out by pumping a syringe attached to the tubing. Proponents of the procedure insist that it is safe...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what king of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide C-(Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have...
...titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and that is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, inset them in outline form: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at at the top, "Illustrate;" "Be specific;" etc? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout you blue book will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List...
...group's members insist they are not so much an opposition faction as ardent advocates of perestroika eager to speed its implementation. Said Leningrad's representative Anatoli Sobchak: "I am not a member of the opposition; I am a supporter of the struggle for a normal economic and political life in our country." But there is a hint of criticism of current as well as past party leaders. President Mikhail Gorbachev, said historian Yuri Afanasyev, an elected official of the group, "is justifiably regarded as the man who launched reform. But the time has passed when he can successfully remain...