Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...correspondent is a relatively new figure in history. Even newer is the PIO, or Public Information Officer, who is supposed to see to it that the war correspondent gets easy access to the facts. The PIO must serve his Government-but reporters often angrily insist that mostly he must serve them. While everybody will agree that, above all, he must serve the truth, the truth is not easily ascertained in a place like Viet Nam. Thus, changing his role from reporter to information officer, from newsman to "news manager" (as some would put it), Mecklin often got caught between...
Ulcers for 30 Years. Simon usually prefers power to title when he seeks to win a company, does not always insist even on board membership. "I prefer not being on the board of directors," he says, "if I can have a real and honest communication with the management. I don't think getting a seat on the board is tremendously significant, even in terms of getting information about what goes on inside a company. There's an awful lot of information that flows around Wall Street." When Simon is frustrated in his attempt to effect reforms, however, the qualities that...
...weeks in France) and more legal holidays (14 in Sweden) than in the U.S. They also cling to their own ways, no matter what the efficiency experts say: Germans like their bottle of beer on the job, the French must have their daily liter of wine, and the Spaniards insist on a three-hour siesta at midday. A U.S.-owned factory in Amsterdam barely averted a walkout over how the cafeteria food should be seasoned, and an exasperated U.S. executive in France found that, after one worker complained of a draft, he had to discuss for hours what doors...
...Hands Are Tied. Moreover, where does the blame lie? "We'll sign," says President John Armstrong of Detroit's Darin & Armstrong Construction Co., "but our hands are tied as to what the unions will do." For their part, unions insist that there are seldom enough qualified Negro applicants for jobs-and in any case, liberal-minded clergy find it easier to condemn discrimination by employers rather than by unions. Dr. Gayraud Wilmore, director of the United Presbyterian Religion and Race Commission, admits that many churches are content to accept a letter from a corporation official, and do little...
...Republic. While Lippmann has always been wary of far-flung commitments overseas, he considers it perfectly proper for the U.S. to maintain order in its own backyard. "The Dominican Republic lies squarely within the sphere of influence of the U.S., and it is normal for a great power to insist that within its sphere of influence no other great power shall exercise hostile military and political force...