Word: insists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...veteran Philadelphia prosecutor, resigned as counsel to the House Select Committee in a flurry of internecine committee bickering, Sprague interviewed Ray in prison three times. Sprague said they were beginning to develop a rapport. After these interviews, Sprague concluded that Raoul "does not and did not exist." Ray did insist, however, that he had had some help from unnamed others while he was a fugitive in Canada, Portugal and England after King's death. The notion, however, that Ray was about to reveal sensational conspiracy details to House investigators at the time of his escape last week...
...fact. Laetrilemania seems to be only one facet of a broader rebellion. The signs of revolt are everywhere-from the refusal of motorists to buckle their seat belts to the fascination with occult healing. Some feminists insist on teaching themselves how to perform their own gynecological examinations in order to regain control, as they put it, of their own bodies from the male-dominated medical profession. Vastly different ideologies may be at play, but these grievances express a common discontent with officially proclaimed wisdom about public health. Though he himself is suffering from cancer (and refuses to take Laetrile...
...meds cited their high school biology and chemistry teachers as important influences in their eventual decisions. Others with fathers who are doctors had favorite childhood impressions of their fathers' jobs. Potential lawyers decided somewhat later than the pre-meds about their choice of profession. Some of these students insist that although they may be going to law school they don't necessarily intend on practicing law. Whether they end up doing so, especially realizing that many people who go into law school with that attitude. emerge with a different, more corporate bent, did not seem to perturb these students. Students...
...much larger problem than the debate over requirements involves the role of the Faculty itself. An undergraduate education will become more valuable only after the Faculty commits itself to teaching basic introductory courses. The dean should insist that these courses be taught and devise an incentive system for professors to teach them. The task force recommended the easy way out by requiring students to take a core curriculum. The more difficult but better recommendation would be to get Faculty members to offer a liberal arts curriculum with courses in many different basic subjects that all students would find attractive...
Most bankers, however, insist that the worries are exaggerated. Says Harry Taylor, executive vice president of Manufacturers Hanover Trust: "Each lending bank regularly reviews conditions in a particular borrowing country and makes a decision about what the country's lending limit should be." Moreover, bankers point out, most of their loans are concentrated among richer and more productive LDCS where the risk of default presumably is lowest -such countries as Brazil, Mexico and South Korea. By contrast, countries like Pakistan, Peru and Ghana get little commercial-bank credit. Finally, bankers argue, a substantial cut in foreign loans now could...