Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upheaval soon spread across much of the country, fired by the deep discontent that permeates France's system of higher education. Compared with the U.S., few youths in France get to universities at all, and those who do find themselves immersed in a selerotic setup that educators insist was out of date in Napoleon's time...
...true, presumably, in man. Here, Hydén opened the door a chink for a glimpse into an admittedly farout future. If a reasonably pure extract of brain DNA is injected into some animals, he said, their protein synthesis doubles within an hour. But he was careful to insist: "This does not mean that an elixir of life has been found." Hard facts remaining to be determined, he said, are whether this is a "functionally valuable or a nonsense protein," and whether the effect will last for days, hours or years...
...similar concerns. Notes Stanford Historian Claude Buss: "Australians, New Zealanders, Koreans, Filipinos and Thais with their forces in Viet Nam are not going to sit aside while we make peace. They will have positive ideas, and they will insist on more security guarantees than we would. They are going to be a lot stickier at a peace conference than...
...proffered that Churchill had a hand in it. It is a tenuous personal speculation indicative only of a common European fascination with conspiratorial-plot theories of history. One cut above a crank and several cuts below a thinker, Hochhuth seems very much like those dedicated slaphappy few who insist that Bacon wrote Shakespeare...
...favor came with enough strings tied around it to make U.S. acceptance dubious. The offer is conditional upon U.S. abstention from any new restrictions on imports or subsidies for exports. And several of the 16 countries insist that Congress must also repeal the so-called American Selling Price system for fixing tariffs on such items as benzenoid chemicals, sneakers, canned clams and woolen knit gloves...