Word: insists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Backers of the Udall bill insist that the enormous acreage they seek is essential if Alaska's fragile ecosystems are to be preserved. Tundra, for example, recovers so slowly that a tractor's tracks are visible years after they are made; many of Alaska's animals require substantial sections of terrain for forage. "While 114 million acres may sound like a lot, there's an awful lot to preserve up there," says the Sierra Club's Charles Clusen. "It takes 100 square miles to support a single arctic brown bear...
Thus in the minds of both black and white sports fans-even those who insist that they are racially color-blind -the questions do arise. Does the obvious superiority of so many black athletes mean that blacks in general are better athletes than whites...
...combination of the two makes for very efficient running. But we don't know whether the development is a result of the running they do, or whether the better running is due to the physical capability." Other authorities, like Harvard Pathology Professor Gustave Dammin, go even further and insist that any physical differences that exist between blacks and whites have no significant bearing on athletic performance. Says Dr. Dammin: "I do not know of anything regarding blacks' physiques that would give them any special athletic advantage...
People who insist on recounting their dreams are like people who insist on reciting the plots of movies they have just seen: usually they don't remember the key story points and usually they don't know what it was all about. And, of course, they are dreadful bores. Robert Altman, generally the most interesting of directors, forthrightly admits that 3 Women is based on some nightwork he recently did, but his candor regarding the source of the movie does not redeem it from tedium...
Worthy is not very optimistic about today's world. "I think America is out of touch with deprived people in emotional, physical, and psychological senses. Eventually these people will insist that their needs be met, which will no doubt lead to violence. I have no faith in an economic system based on individual selfishness and stomping on people in order to get ahead,' he says...