Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unpleasant as that sounds, bankers privy to the Government's own figures insist that it understates the problem by including special "nonrecurring" deals. Without these, the deficit would be double what the Administration admitted. Even on the Commerce Department's basis, the deficit is running at an annual rate of more than $2 billion, compared with $1.4 billion...
Without directly intervening, the U.S. can apply effective pressure on the junta by halting all military aid until the Greek leaders agree to restore a constitution acceptable to a majority of the people. The U.S. should insist, as a precondition for the resumption of military aid, that free elections and genuinely representative institutions be established within a short and definite period of time...
After talking the matter over with his reporters and New York Times Associate Editor James Reston, Bradlee laid down some guidelines: "First, we encourage every reporter to fight like hell to get it on the record. Second, he should insist that the absolute minimum he'll take is attribution to the Government agency involved. Third, he should say in the story why it is background news. Finally, the reporter is free, at his discretion, to get up and leave a background session...
...Government, acknowledge the electoral risks of forming a new party. They seem to have assimilated the fact that independent candidates for President--from Teddy Roos-evelt to Robert LaFollette to Henry Wallace--have accumulated a steadily diminishing percentage of the vote. The real function of a third party, they insist, is "to demonstrate the existence of a block of voters for whose support a major party must bid; to force major parties to alter stands on certain issues and to serve as bridges for movement of the discontented from one party to another, or back to the original party after...
...building or cave all the time and never went out in the sun." They would also, of course, be pallid, and in today's civilization a pasty hue is no sign of beauty. Aware of that, Dr. Wilson suggests use of an "instant tan" product. For those who insist on the sun, he advises the most ray-opaque lotions available...