Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most big companies are busy courting architects, wooing builders and using massive advertising campaigns to persuade the home buyers to insist on their products. Makers of aluminum, the fastest-rising among the new sidings, privately ask how long steel clapboard can resist rust. The steel-clapboard men, joined by the makers of a plywood coated with plastic, imply that aluminum snaps, crackles and pops during sharp temperature changes, and that a baseball or a hailstone can leave a permanent dent. The hottest war of all is the advertising battle between the gas and electrical utility companies for the right...
...Rumanian delegation that journeyed to Peking several months ago, in the hope of renewing Russo-Chinese dialogue, heard the most vitriolic denunciation of Premier Khrushchev, whom the Chinese blame personally for reneging on the large aid-and-trade agreement that followed Stalin's death. The Rumanians had to insist that Khrushchev is but a responsive politician, attuned to the desires of of a people who, after 45 years of paying for their own industrialization, the War, and then the arms race, are unwilling to make another vast outlay at the expense of their own comfort and prosperity...
...schedule of fees that doctors could charge under the Belgian health-insurance system, and restricted them to no more than three afternoons a week to see private patients. The doctors are convinced that this law will lower their incomes and oblige them to practice assembly-line medicine, and they insist that government inspection of their records would violate the secrecy of the doctor-patient relationship. They also fear that the law will lead to uncomfortably accurate auditing of their income-tax returns...
...Europeans on some items. The ministers barely discussed the matter at all, took no action. Any hope of reaching a common European grain price-which the U.S. wants established so that grain can be part of the Geneva bargaining-was once more dashed by the West Germans, who insist on higher prices than the other five in order to protect their inefficient farmers. With this lack of progress, the Geneva negotiations are sure to get off to a slow start, and will probably drag on wearily for many, many months. Some Europeans feel, in fact, that Charles de Gaulle does...
Since the Communists continue to insist that Peking and not Taipel is the legitimate ruling capital of China, Mao to be "impossible." The recent the U.S. finds official dealings with revision of French policy on this subject is relatively unimportant, Barnett said, because unlike the U.S., the French are "not involved" in Far Eastern affairs as a power...