Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...triplicate filing system sometimes slowed down transfer of books from packages to shelves, but was efficient in the long run. And, if students didn't complain about a sold-out book, then the clerks didn't always notice it immediately, delaying its re-order. But the clerks, Coop officials insist, were and are as good as the staff of any Boston department store; what may have looked like "chaos" in the annex was the necessary moving of books...
Beyond the need for additional aircraft, Air Force planners insist that the North can only be bombed effectively if they have permission to hit "source" targets-oil dumps to keep trucks from rolling rather than the trucks themselves or the roads they negotiate, thermal and hydroelectric plants to starve small workshops of power rather than the shops themselves, ammunition factories to cut production rather than smaller, harder-to-hit ammo dumps. The planners maintain that there are more than 50 such targets inviting attack in the North and that they should be hit at least every other...
Most old-line labor leaders insist that workers should have the right to strike -regardless of the consequences. At A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany's headquarters, the reaction to Reuther's proposal was a sharp "no comment-with the emphasis on the no." All the same, Administration officials are hopeful that Reuther's speech may help persuade liberals in Congress to support President Johnson's upcoming legislation to outlaw strikes by public employees. Said Assistant Secretary of Labor James J. Reynolds: "Here is an indication, even in the labor ranks, of changes that will have...
...choice of plays to be produced will be left up to the students, Chapman said. He said he would insist, however, that they be representative of the genres under study during the semester: the theatre of the absurd, modern expressionist drama, and Oriental theatre...
...have treated him with that cold distaste and haughty contempt that characterize recent New York Times editorials. "If he wants to talk to me so much," Mike Quill reportedly said after one of the few times Lindsay had bothered to enter the transit negotiations, "then why does he insist on looking over the top of my head?" It should hardly be necessary to point out which Mayor's approach has been the more successful in protecting the public interest by preventing or settling a strike...