Word: insist
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...himself, however, recovery of the American auto industry will require leaving the trade barriers in place for a decade or more, regardless of whatever concessions we can wring from the rest of the world. To suppose that other countries won't retaliate--as proponents of the Domestic Content Bill insist--is ludicrous. The dollars that Americans spend on Japanese cars are ultimately spent by the Japanese on American exports. If we stop importing their cars, they will undoubtedly prevent us from exporting something else (whatever threatens their own industries most) and our growing, successful industries will suffer. A Congressional Budget...
Commission spokesmen insist that the group is still considering "the whole range" of options, and Scowcroft readily concedes that all of them "have warts." Nonetheless, possibly in an attempt to influence the commission, some members of Congress have floated reports that the group is leaning toward a two-phase deployment plan. In the first phase, an unspecified number of the MX missiles would be placed in existing Minuteman silos after the holes are reinforced to withstand a higher level of enemy warhead blasts. The Senate last year rejected a Reagan proposal to do just that with MX on the grounds...
Even if the short-term cash-crunch problem is solved, Deukmejian critics insist that the Governor's overall plan for escaping the crisis also contains a strong element of make-believe. The state faces a deficit of $1.5 billion in the fiscal year that ends June 30, partly because state tax collections have been held down by the recession, partly because spending has been kept high by the need to bail out local governments whose ability to levy property taxes was sharply curtailed by the passage of Proposition 13 in 1978. While Democrats have said that they would...
...acrimony at a House Banking Committee hearing last week was typical. Said Jim Leach, an Iowa Republican, to a group of bank executives: "Let's face it. You've screwed up." Accordingly, some legislators will insist that approval of the IMF measure be accompanied by legislation imposing new discipline on the banks. Among the provisions of a bill expected to be introduced this week are measures to limit the amount a bank can lend to any one country and to force banks to reserve more money for loan losses when foreign loans begin to sour...
...general-interest daily, has increased its business coverage by 25% within the past two years. Moreover, the London-based weekly Economist (European circ. 35,000) has been joined by international editions of two American magazines, Business Week (European circ. 38,000) and FORTUNE (European circ. 45,000). Journal officials insist that the territory is large enough for everyone. But Herald Tribune Publisher Lee Huebner says he expects the new entry to take some corporate advertising, and Financial Times Managing Director Richard McClean is worried about competition for readers. Says McClean: "The Journal may be a threat...