Word: insistency
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...millions of Americans who believe that U.S. officials are withholding the truth about Roswell specifically and UFOs in general are not about to be swayed by the facts. Echoing The X-Files, they insist the truth is still out there. Says Weaver: "What I hadn't realized [before we issued our first report] was the vehemence of the pro-UFO people. Telling them there was no saucer at Roswell was like telling a kid there is no Santa Claus." With the urge to believe so strong, the legend of Roswell will doubtless...
...return to the horrific pre-ban poaching levels that saw ivory hunters slaughtering nearly 70,000 African elephants each year. Officials in Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana, where 30 percent of Africa's estimated 580,000 elephants live, scoff that such an attitude reeks of Western "environmental colonialism." While they insist that the tusks to be sold are already stockpiled, any self-respecting elephant had better head for the hills once the poachers find out that ivory is being shipped once more...
Cultural bias has been weeded out of most standardized tests--the SATs don't ask questions about chablis--and Texas officials insist that the TAAS is race neutral. But even if a test is fair, it can be put to uses that are not. Low TAAS scores, for example, have not been shown to correlate with the inability to do any particular job, but the lack of a high school diploma does correlate with the inability to find work. Should students poorly educated by substandard teachers be further penalized when they can't pass a test? What about good students...
Because Harvard's schools, particularly the larger ones, insist on keeping policy-making and innovation within their control, OIT learned the true lesson of Winthrop's parable: When the city on the hill fails, the entire world is there to watch...
...learned that the nonagenarian senator wrote a glowing introduction to a new book contending that the U.S. won the Cold War with alien technology recovered at the Roswell, New Mexico site that conspiracy buffs believe was the scene of an extraterrestrial crash landing in July 1947. Thurmond aides insist that "The Day After Roswell," by former Thurmond aide and retired Army intelligence officer Philip J. Corso, was not the book he thought it was. In his foreword, Thurmond praised Corso as a man "with many interesting stories to share with individuals interested in military history, espionage and the workings...