Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mboya's elbow during the talks will be Thurgood Marshall, general counsel of the N.A.A.C.P., who flew to Kenya from the U.S. to advise on tactics. Kenya's white settler extremists firmly reject the idea of an African government and insist that Britain remain in control indefinitely. Last week Governor Sir Patrick Renison signed a red-ribboned document formally ending the seven-year Mau Mau state of emergency. In Nairobi's African locations, thousands of natives celebrated on a native beer called pombe, and burned the hated identification passbooks they have had to carry...
Automation without strife is not a matter of what management does but how management does it. In the auto industry, Autoworkers President Walter Reuther early took the position: "We do not oppose the introduction of more efficient technology. We do insist, however, that a modicum of social responsibility be exercised in its introduction." Taking Reuther at his word, the auto companies in 1958 put in their contract provisions for early retirement as well as severance pay when machines displace workers. The Big Three also gave displaced workers first crack at new automated jobs, and Ford eliminated the 27-year...