Word: insist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...allow its basic industries to atrophy and still remain a major industrial and military power? McDonald's now employs more workers than U.S. Steel. Can such trends continue? Business leaders in the older sectors of the economy insist that they cannot. Says John Nevin, chairman of Firestone Tire & Rubber: "It's utter nonsense that we are going to become a high-tech and a service economy. The high-tech companies have more manufacturing offshore than here. The idea that we can have an economy by selling hamburgers to each other is absurd...
...insist and insist again by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of a C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide: C- (Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student doesn't know the material, or hasn't thought carefully, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights...
...titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading: and that is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, inset them in outline from: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at the top. "Illustrate", "Be specific"; etc? They mean it. The illustrations needn't of course be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered through your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List, Name...
...Seven-Up campaign pushed the lemon-lime drink ahead of Dr Pepper and stunned Coke and Pepsi, which insist there is nothing wrong with normal levels of caffeine. Last July, however, Pepsi introduced decaffeinated versions of regular Pepsi and Diet Pepsi, and both have done well. "They have gone far beyond our wildest expectations," says Rick Sharp, marketing manager of Pepsi-Cola Bottling in Los Angeles. Pepsi now has 50% of the decaffeinated cola market, which reached about $200 million last year...
...What would happen to excess SS-20s, all mobile, now deployed in the European part of the Soviet Union if reductions were agreed upon? The Soviets have reserved the option of moving the extra missiles to Asia. The U.S., at minimum, would probably insist that they be dismantled and destroyed, so that the missiles could not be moved back to Europe in a crisis...