Word: insists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...powered helicopter. Mahony is upgrading his pilot's license so he can fly it solo. Zinging along at 160 m.p.h., he can cut the travel time to the seminary at Camarillo to 15 minutes; by car it took up to 2 1/2 hours. Archdiocesan spokesmen insist the money has not been diverted from other purposes: the contributors are donating more than $1 million a year each to programs for the poor...
...detention and alleged torture of black children, analyzed the causes of black- on-black violence, aired footage of the war in Angola and exposed the activities of the White Wolves, a right-wing terrorist group. Critics charge that the show crosses the line between journalism and advocacy. But staffers insist they are open to many views and regularly solicit South African officials for comment. "We strive for journalistic credibility," says O'Connor, "but we have no problem being identified as antiapartheid...
What can be done? Two alternatives at least suggest themselves: one is to eliminate our Saturday night games, or, if that can't be done, insist that our opponents play on Friday and Saturday as well. Otherwise, we don't play. That may be a tough stand to take, but better that than this cruel fiasco of asking our players to go in there and be humiliated seven years out of eight...
Generations of Harvard men and women may come, and generations of them may go, but one fact remains constant: admissions officers insist there is no such thing as a "typical Harvard student...
Administrators at some pilot schools admit that the lure of free equipment influenced their decisions to air the program. But other officials insist that they chose Channel One primarily on its merits. "Some people assume we're mindless dolts and victims of rampant commercialism," says Thomas Sharkey, principal of Billerica Memorial High School in Billerica, Mass. "I consider this the best form of corporate-school partnership." David Bennett, superintendent of the St. Paul school district, cites lack of public funds as ; a key reason why schools would accept the offer...