Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Nevertheless, last week's decision immediately set off some price shifts. While high-price countries like Libya and Algeria did not push theirs higher, Kuwait, Iraq, Qatar and Venezuela announced that they would begin demanding as much as $2 per bbl. more for oil on July 1. Those four countries have been recently charging a basic price of about $30 per bbl. for crude. Saudi Arabia refused to increase its rates for now, but Yamani hinted that he might raise them by $1 per bbl. to $4 per bbl. in order to unify OPEC prices. Some oil experts expect...
...Nevertheless, for all their hankering after order and continuity, the Russians have surprised the world, and themselves, before. They could do so again. It was in the context of an admission of his inability to "forecast to you the actions" of the U.S.S.R. that Winston Churchill made his famous statement in 1939: "Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." Less well remembered but equally trenchant was what he said next: "But perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest." Four decades later, the U.S.S.R. is still enigmatic, even?perhaps especially?to itself...
...Nevertheless, the Soviets have gleaming facilities that are equal to anything in the U.S. TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan recently toured three such centers in or near the Soviet capital. His report: "The Bakulev Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery, run by internationally recognized heart surgeon Vladimir Burakovsky, has performed at least 20,000 heart operations since it was established in 1956, 2,000 of them on children under age two. There are now 40 operations a week in its nine operating theaters...
...means "modernist" -artists are not persecuted as systematically as dissident writers, and fewer of them actually end up laying rails in Siberia or being shot full of drugs in KGB madhouses, this merely reflects the fact that art is not as forceful a channel for maverick ideas as literature. Nevertheless, state approval governs every aspect of the production, exhibition, sale and discussion of painting and sculpture. The essence of totalitarianism is that there must be no gaps in the monolith, nowhere for culture to create its models of dissent...
...Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, to urge higher standards on his colleagues. The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education has become warier about issuing its seal of approval, which is largely honorific, since state boards of education issue their own, often easygoing approval for teacher-training programs. Nevertheless, with an awakened interest in "consumer protection" for parents and pupils, the council denied accreditation to teacher-training programs at 31% of colleges reviewed in 1979, compared with 10% in 1973. Says Salem, Ore., School Superintendent William Kendrick: "For too long, we've believed that if you hold...