Word: insists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head tutors do insist that professors participate actively in tutorials, the legislation will provide them with that Ackerman termed its most valuable quality: arm twisting power...
Silber is the central figure in the controversy. Even his admirers admit he is tough, abrasive, and outspoken. His detractors charge he is corrupt, completely unreasonable, a dictator, and adjectives then become unprintable. Hundreds of students and faculty sport "Dump Silber" buttons and many people insist B.U.'s problems will not be resolved until the university has a new president. The trustees, however, support Silber and faculty leaders are willing to put up with him if they have a good contract guaranteeing them wage increases and the right to govern their own affairs...
...direct assault upon the authority of the University and upon rational processes and accepted procedures," Pusey said in a statement released April 11. "What is now at stake is the freedom to teach, to inquire and to learn," Ford added in a statement released the same day. "Some now insist that 'storm troopers entered University Hall.' This is true, but they entered it at noon on Wednesday, not dawn on Thursday...
Democratic congressional leaders, meanwhile, insist that they are sympathetic to demands for a balanced budget but do not want to risk the potential chaos of a convention or the straitjacket that an amendment could place on economic policy. These legislators argue that they should take no action until after full discussion. But to some critics, this seems like a strategy for stretching out hearings in the hope that the public's interest will wane before a the public's interest will wane before a vote has to be taken. The Senate held one hearing in early March...
...stir confidence in the team that always seems to be chasing the New York Yankees, and always just falling short. Last year's collapse, blowing a 14-game lead, was of such epic proportions that it already is part of the game's lore, but the Sox insist, perhaps too strongly, that the past is dead. In his 19th major league spring, Carl Yastrzemski looks back on the year that got away and declares: "I forgot about it a couple of hours after we got beat. Optimism is what spring training is for." And First Baseman George Scott...