Word: insists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While members of the board took a proper first step in saying that representatives from the Afro Department should be appointed to the advisory board, their continued insistence that the DuBois Institute, as a graduate research institute, should have no ties to the undergraduate department is unrealistic. The students are right to insist that two bodies, both concerned with studying Afro-Americans, should not be artificially isolated within the University. Both groups would lose in such a situation...
...Americans have the special task to see to it that our country begins again, as at its birth, to represent peace and democracy throughout the world; that it insist upon human rights and decency everywhere; and that such subversion and intervention as our recent U.S. administrations have practiced in Chile must never happen again...
...city. A garbage collector's base pay after three years is $14,800. A policeman can retire at half pay after 20 years on the force, and probably collect more money in pension before he dies than he ever did in wages. A high school teacher can insist on no more than 34 students to a classroom. In the past decade, though the city's population has declined, the number of its employees has risen 38%, to 340,000 - and the average of their salaries has crept up 10% each year...
Whether that fruitless confrontation can be avoided depends heavily on the types of programs Congress builds into the budget. The danger is that the House and Senate will insist on voting permanent programs such as the farm-support bill, rather than short-term stimulation measures that can be revoked when recovery makes them unnecessary. In that event, the public and private sectors of the U.S. will be placed on a collision course that would reverse the upturn and perhaps leave the nation worse off than it was before the recovery began...
...medical advances were made in developing German measles and Rh vaccines and in studying infant breathing problems and amniotic fluids.* At base the commission faces a classic conflict. On one hand, scientists argue that experiments that benefit countless future children must not be prohibited. On the other, many ethicists insist that benefits or no, living fetuses must be protected...