Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Second, the standard apparently will not apply to officials who have already slipped through the Senate confirmation process. Despite Ron Brown's admission that he failed to pay taxes for a part-time maid, Administration officials insist that the commerce secretary will keep...
Though the veracity of the movie has come under fire in recent weeks, the organizers insist the film will be an opportunity to improve relations between Blacks and Jews on campus. The event is sponsored by the Office of the President, the Office of the Dean of Students and the Afro-American Studies Department...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s., we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do 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 though 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 this 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 the exams insist 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 your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name...
...ANGOLA. The U.N. is blamed for having failed to insist on the disarmament of the UNITA rebel movement in Angola before U.N.-organized elections were held last September to end that country's 16-year civil war. As a result, UNITA head Jonas Savimbi reacted to his first-round election loss to President Jose Eduardo dos Santos by renewing the fighting...