Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME'S INNUENDO ABOUT MURROW'S FAILURE TO APPEAR ELECTION NIGHT IS SLANDEROUS. IS DOUBLE VIRUS PNEUMONIA NOT ENOUGH, OR DOES TIME INSIST ON TERMINAL-STAGE CANCER? MURROW HAS DONE MORE FOR BROADCAST JOURNALISM THAN ALL THE REST OF US COMBINED...
...sane man. If this happens, for the rest of my life my work will be considered as the work of a man with a disordered mind. My pride is that as a sane man I can explore areas of experience that other men are afraid of. I insist I am sane." Not so sure, Magistrate Reuben Levy sent Norman Mailer to Bellevue Hospital for mental observation "in the public interest...
...determination to give France its own atomic striking force. After De Gaulle exploded two of his costly bombs in the Sahara, other NATO powers knew that the time was coming when West Germany-which already possesses the knowhow to make cheap, do-it-yourself A-bombs-might also insist on an independent atomic force. This is a prospect that even the majority of Germans regard without enthusiasm and which raises distinct hackles on other NATO necks, most notably Britain...
...lawyers. General Counsel C. Joseph Stetler of the A.M.A. blames exaggerated stories of new drugs, methods of treatment and "miracle" surgery, which "lead the public to believe that anything less than a perfect result is per se evidence of negligence." Result: an increased urge to sue. Some doctors insist that only 10% of all malpractice suits have any merit; the rest, they claim, are nothing more than "legalized blackmail...
...some help from abroad. Responding to heavy pressure from the Eisenhower Administration, West Germany lowered its discount rate from 5% to 4%, and its bank rates for loans from 6% to 5%, thus weakening a magnet that has been drawing gold from the U.S. Kennedy seems sure to insist strongly, as did Ike, that West Germany and other U.S. allies help more in defending the free world against Communism, thus relieving the U.S. of some of its heavy foreign spending...