Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much less than a first-rate physician could earn in private practice. Some schools settle for second-rate teachers. Others compromise by taking on professors halftime, leaving them half a work week to make a living in private practice. Since this leaves no time for research, the best schools insist on a hard core of full-time faculty members. Even so, these are outnumbered by part-time specialty teachers, often unpaid. There are now 331 full-time budgeted positions open in U.S. medical schools, with no qualified takers...
Pete Reider and Ed Martin typify the spirit of the Harvard squad. Neither has worked out for two weeks, but both insist upon being allowed to run. Reider believes that he can win the race...
Commonest medical complaint of the U.S. tourist is diarrhea, which may be a simple, short-lived discomfort or, in the form of amoebic dysentery, a severe, life-threatening disease. Last week, though Mexicans stoutly insist that their country is not so bad as others to the south, Mexico City's local government took a major step toward eliminating what is variously known as turista, the Aztec two-step, and Montezuma's revenge. In the capital's big, sparkling new Jamaica Market, and in a dozen smaller ones, watchful health inspectors installed a rigorous system of spraying fruits...
...Percival Brundage. But the Administration has budgeted for Vanguard all the funds that the men who run the project asked for ($110 million so far). And that stock villain, interservice rivalry, did not slow up the project, according to Vanguard scientists. In fact, the scientists, from Dr. Hagen down, insist that Vanguard has not failed, that it will reach its basic goal of orbiting a satellite before...
...solve the problem, the U.S. Government stepped in last week with more of the same distasteful medicine it has been pressuring the industry to swallow for months. Instead of cutting domestic production, it will insist that major oil companies chop back their imports of cheaper foreign oil under a "voluntary" 10% reduction program (TIME, Sept. 30). Having already rejected appeals by three companies (Tidewater, Indiana Standard Oil, Ohio Standard) for sizable boosts in their import quotas. Navy Captain Matthew V. Carson Jr., administrator of the program, also turned down Eastern States Petroleum Co. and Sinclair Oil Co., even though Sinclair...