Word: insists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reasonable depth prior to graduation." It is a statement of what the requirement entails, not an explanation of why it should exist. Faculty members offer little more explanation than the booklet--they only add vague notions that by concentrating students will "come to grips with fundamentals." Faculty members insist they do not intend the requirement to get Med students into specialties early, although it may certainly have that effect. The faculty's real motivation seems to be suggested by Associate Dean Blacklow: they think students would just enjoy their education too much without the requirement. And now that they...
...main problem with The Selfish Gene is that it distorts a subject which is controversial enough when dealt with honestly and factually--as I said in my review. If Dawkins doesn't think genes are "selfish in the sense that the dictionary defines the word," then why does he insist on naming his book "The Selfish Gene"? Why didn't he call his book "Interpretations of Natural Selection" and cut out the non-scientific, agitating rhetoric that makes his book sell and that makes his book likely to be misinterpreted by people who do know enough genetics to separate what...
...government on the basis of sex. But in Florida, as elsewhere, opponents claimed that the ERA would force the legalization of homosexual marriage, end the support of wives by their husbands, and require use of the same public toilets by men and women. With scant effect, legal experts insist that the ERA requires none of these measures...
...Senior players 65 and over to one singles and one doubles match a day during a national tournament. To a man, Super-Senior players say the heart attacks and strokes that occur occasionally on the courts would probably have happened anyway-at a desk or even in bed. They insist that the tennis court is where they want to face the ultimate match point anyway-preferably just after they have aced their opponent...
...Romans called the islands Insulas Canarias, or "Islands of the Dogs," because of the many canines found there. *Pan Am officials insist Grubbs never made this statement and that it does not appear on tower tape transcripts. Grubbs, however, told at least one reporter that he had, indeed, said this. If so, it should show up on a cockpit voice tape...