Word: insists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...levels on which writing is pursued here, a combination of quantitative and qualitative limitations apparently discourages some students, especially those who insist they have little pretention to ever becoming great writers, but who would still like to take some writing courses...
Syrian Uniforms. In the end, however, the clout of the leading moderates won out-sort of. Egypt, which is the overwhelming political power in the region, Syria, which currently has the military strength, and Saudi Arabia, which has the money, hung together to insist on ratification of the Riyadh agreement. Syria's President Assad, who until the Riyadh meeting had been at odds with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, spoke glowingly of "this good land of Egypt" and praised "my brother Sadat." Lebanese Delegate Najib Dahdah attacked Hammadi for interfering in the internal affairs of his country-ignoring the fact...
Chain-Smoking. Russians, like Americans, are finding it difficult to change their ways. Despite the ukase against smoking, Moscow restaurant patrons argue loudly when asked to put out their cigarettes. When nonsmokers protest the presence of a smoker at a nearby table, some managers insist that they have not even heard of the new rule. The manager of a collective farm near Timashevskaya in southern Russia chain-smoked furiously while entertaining TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark in a canteen where signs were posted, warning of the perils of smoking...
...Oregon officials insist that the state's three-year-old ban on no deposit-no return containers has significantly thwarted litter bugs, and a similar law in Vermont reduced can and bottle litter on the highways by 76% during the first year it was in effect, cutting cleanup costs...
...Crimson's Election Day supplement contends that John Stuart Mill presented the philosophical justification of libertarianism. This is incorrect. Even Mill's most ardent defenses of freedom clearly rest in utilitatian concerns, whereas the doctrines of the Libertarion party insist on liberty because of a belief in individual rights. The distinction is significant since it produces a substantial difference both in the definition of liberty and in the nature and degree of the commitment...