Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem simply been kicked around until it disappeared? Hardly. New York's newspaper publishers insist that they must automate to survive. Of the town's six dailies, only the Times and the News are making money. Meanwhile, automation is either in operation or in the planning stage at newspapers across the U.S. Some 60 papers are already using the computer system that Mrs. Schiff wants to install; eventually, Powers or no, the machine is bound to invade New York in force...
...shared work and play within the family group," and "makes for cooperation with relatives and friends"; besides, "if there were servants as in the old South, wives might get too lazy to go back to work after the children are grown." Some American wives accept such rationalizations and often insist on "doing everything" themselves; this may result in a serene sense of accomplishment, but just as often in a martyred claim on the family's sympathy, admiration and help...
...Theodore H.White's knowledge of American politics. But the same is true of a lot of classics, like Boswell's Life of Johnson, to which White's book bears something of a family resemblance. Like Boswell, White believes that he lives in a world run by people. "Historials insist that the inevitable is inevitable only after people have made it so," he says, and there are dozens of similar phrases in this book that tell you that Theodore White is no determinist, no sir. So his book, like Boswell's centers, on people. Yet he opens his lens to include...
...mildly diabetic patients" goes part way toward explaining the diabetic's constant hunger: he keeps on eating because insulin tends to stimulate the appetite. This alone would make it hard for him to keep his weight down. But in addition, insulin stimulates the deposition of fat. Physicians insist that adult diabetes can nearly always be controlled by diet alone-if only the patient will stick to the diet. But he rarely does. At Grasslands Hospital in New York's Westchester County, Dr. Charles Weller and Dr. Morton Linder found that the more overweight the diabetic gets, the more...
...Unalterable Obligation." The lessons that emerge from Mecklin's account are sad but simple. Highhanded as he was, Diem deserved greater understanding from the U.S. Writes Mecklin: "Just as the U.S. should insist on effective action against a guerrilla enemy, we should rigidly limit our interference to this objective. We should accept almost any extreme of public embarrassment, even at the expense of our 'dignity,' to permit the host government to enjoy the trappings of independence...