Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become Minister of Education in the FLN government, assured the audience that Algeria would not incur obligations to either the Communists or the Free World. "We can't afford to be in debt," he said. "You can have debts only if you're rich." The Soviets do not insist upon commitment, he asserted. They offer concrete aid to the people and then collect the natural good will...
...reminded the hushed Assembly that if he resigned, Khrushchev would insist on replacing him with a three-headed Secretariat. This, said Hammarskjold, "would make it impossible to maintain an effective executive. By resigning, I would, therefore, at the present difficult and dangerous juncture, throw the organization to the winds. I have no right to do so because I have responsibility to all those member states for which the organization is of decisive importance-a responsibility that overrides all other considerations...
Even when there is no clear-cut violation of business ethics, most businessmen believe that conflict of interest is simply bad business. They insist that it forces executives to give less than their best to their own company, needlessly exposes the company to the peril of stockholders' suits and a damaged public reputation. To avoid even the appearance of wrongdoing, many a U.S. executive could well recall an old Chinese proverb: "When passing through your neighbor's melon patch, do not stoop to tie your shoe...
...Lookouts. The klaxon girls are the gaudiest example of an upsurge of prostitution that has occurred since a law sponsored by Socialist Angelina Merlin banned state-supervised brothels in 1958 (Merlin advocates insist it is only coincidence). But last week the Health Ministry reported that cases of syphilis registered in state clinics have doubled since 1957, and Rome's II Tempo charged that "the number of prostitutes has shown a marked increase." Since the Merlin law reforms, prostitutes can be jailed in Italy only when caught in the act. To guard against this misfortune, the klaxon girls have begun...
...East-West leaders refrain from dragging the Cold War into the United Nations the organization will survive the present crisis. If, however, they insist on waging their battle for world supremacy through the U.N., the world organization will be crippled and the myriad problems that lie outside of the East-West conflict will remain largely unsolved...