Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FORMOSA: still staunchly held by Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, 77, who continues to insist that he will return to the mainland but obviously has no chance of doing...
...Lyndon Johnson. A greater obstacle was the all-too-likely possibility that voters might not be able to distinguish between conservative Re- publicanism Taft-style, and Goldwater-style. Taft was honest enough to admit that he agreed with Goldwater in some areas, particularly fiscal. But he went on to insist that he was a "middle-of-the-roader on education, health and welfare, and a liberal on civil rights." Whether Taft had got the point across depended on the outcome of a cliff-hanging vote count...
...life of the former White House aide from his Texas boyhood right up to the moment he was last arrested in a Washington Y.M.C.A. washroom. But beyond a flat statement that Jenkins had not been "framed" or "entrapped" (as some of Jenkins' most powerful friends continue to insist), the FBI report said little that was not already known (TIME, Oct. 23) or purely conjectural...
...resent these characters. I was delighted when many companies that dispensed free lunches and free products at meetings stopped it, but the situation is growing worse. As a result of the notoriety, other people are training themselves to follow in their footsteps." Weinberg's advice to corporate officers: insist on decorum, cut stockholders off after "one or two questions," firmly rule irrelevant gibes out of order and keep the names and pictures of gadflies out of post-meeting reports...
Third market dealers insist that the competition they give the exchanges is healthy, and the SEC seems to agree. In its Special Stock Market Study Report last year, the SEC found that "the third market has been, on balance, beneficial to investors and the public interest." Nonetheless, the Government has plans to bring the market under closer scrutiny-though not as close as the exchange would like. By year's end, the SEC is expected to impose new rules requiring that third market firms identify the stocks in which they deal and make quarterly reports on all their...