Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major bills, his influence has been vast in the legislative field. McCormack is not a bookish man; his curiosity has seldom fastened on subjects outside his own political sphere. His skills are great as a behind-the-scenes negotiator, but House critics, mostly Northern and Western liberal Democrats, insist that he is too willing to compromise on basic principles. McCormack denies the charge, argues that all he is doing is "harmonizing differences...
Nothing so irritates Harry Bridges, now 62, as the notion that the automation agreement means that he is mellowing. Says he: "We've merely adopted a very selfish, narrow program to take care of the people in our union." Yet others insist that he really enjoys his new status. Explains Bridges' "friendly foe," Maritime Negotiator J. Paul St. Sure: "It got a little trying for him to hear all the time about what a rough s.o.b. he was. He likes his present role." Although Bridges lives in a modest two-bedroom house with his third wife Noriko...
Perhaps. Some lawyers hold that almost all Mexican divorces obtained by Americans are entirely worthless. Other divorce-law experts insist that the situation is not all that bad, that a correctly handled Mexican divorce is perfectly valid in most of the 50 states. But if someone contests it later, defending a Mexican quickie-cheapie can prove long-drawn-out, costly and uncertain...
...people are as optimistic as Heller about the benefits of a tax cut. There are those who argue that a level of 5% unemployed has become a structural feature of the U.S. economy. Not even large Government retraining programs to teach new skills will dent the problem, they insist, because nearly half of the jobless are so inadequately schooled that they lack the basic education necessary to build a retraining program around. The world's wealthiest nation has found no way to cope with the fact that some of its citizens have no useful place in today...
...deluge of advertising that floods the mails - and never seems so insist ent as during the holiday season - some times infuriates by its bulk as much as it influences by its appeal. Each year the public is hit by an onslaught of 48 billion direct-mail ads, and the business of compiling mailing lists has become a highly automated industry made up of dozens of firms that spare no effort to capture another name. This year they will gross close to $1 billion renting names and addresses to anyone who has anything to sell. Lists can be rented with...