Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manila Conference, got them to agree to pocket their resignations for the time being. But the crisis was merely postponed. The southerners have put a price on their continued collaboration with Ky: an end to "northern domination," and the dismissal of General Loan, whose tough tactics, they insist, give the regime "the image of a police state...
...Schenck, however, Justice Holmes also declared that such utterances can be punished only if they create a "clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent. It is a question of proximity and degree." Miller and his lawyers insist that burning a draft card endangers no one except the burner. They point out that all the information on the card-and much more-is also on file with the draft board. Besides, the new law is redundant: even before it was passed, another law made it a crime...
...Coop would really like to have all your textbooks on the shelves all the time, its officials insist...
...bombing raids in a section of the demilitarized zone near the 17th parallel, Hanoi did not reciprocate. The U.S. has also offered to initiate an over all bombing pause in return for assurance from the North of a comparable deescalation, but Hanoi's response has been to insist on a total and permanent halt of all U.S. bombing before it will even talk about holding talks...
...they have long dominated, coalmen have turned to unit trains, automated mining equipment, and mine-mouth generating plants transmitting power across huge distances via super-high-voltage lines. Nuclear plants remain too costly for small utility companies or sparsely populated regions. In such Southwestern states as Texas, utility men insist that they will rely on cheap natural gas for years. With the total U.S. demand for electricity doubling every decade, even General Electric figures that coal consumption in U.S. power plants will more than double between...