Word: insist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still lacks the kind of great innovators who set up the original American system. Harvard's Skinner says that many manufacturers are "housekeepers but not yet architects." More strategic thinking, more top talent and more development, he says, are needed. Detroit auto executives take exception to that. They insist they are no longer second to Japanese manufacturing in any way. "There is no manufacturing gap," says Ford President Donald Petersen. Echoes GM President F James McDonald: "There are no differences in the process. Most of the technology everyone uses was developed here...
Producers insist that the sound-track boom has not marred their judgment of what makes a good film. Moreover, even the youngest of the new Hollywood moguls can recall the heady months following Saturday Night Fever. The studios scrambled to duplicate that film's success and came up with such box-office flops as FM, I Wanna Hold Your Hand and Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Says Footloose Executive Producer Daniel Melnick: "If you don't have a picture the audience really enjoys, you could have 100 hours a week on MTV and it wouldn...
Amendment opponents insist that organized, vocal prayer can never be truly voluntary. Children of different faiths, or none, will feel themselves forced by social pressure to join in. Contends Rabbi Balfour Brickner of Manhattan's Stephen Wise Free Synagogue: "If the prayer is spoken, it will be physically coercive, and if silent it will be psychologically coercive." The alternative, opponents contend, is to offer prayers so general as to be meaningless, even offensive to the truly religious. The establishment of a neutered "civil religion" is offensive to many who believe deeply in their own faiths. Says Robert Minor, professor...
...Washington, Secretary of State George Shultz continued to insist before Congress that the U.S. was willing to lend a hand in achieving a political solution in Lebanon. While Shultz spoke, the number of U.S. warships stationed off the shores of Beirut was dwindling from about 20 to twelve. In tacit recognition of their impotence, Shultz and various Congressmen traded barbs over the American policy failure in Lebanon, contributing heat but no light to that country's future...
...such problems as hurricanes, smugglers or threats to national security. The pact was most famously invoked during the Grenada invasion, when a total of 300 police and soldiers from six islands were sent to support the 8,000 U.S. fighting troops. Champions of the proposed regional defense force insist that it would include no more than 1,000 troops, but Barbadian Brigadier Rudyard Lewis, the regional security coordinator, has already suggested that the contingent should have as many as 1,800 men. An informed Barbadian analyst predicts that the final tab for such a force could amount to almost...