Word: insist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sometimes a company's backers insist on professional management from the start. David Lee, 44, of San Jose, invented a high-speed printing system, known as the daisy wheel, which is now widely used in office machines. In 1973, when he started his own firm, Qume, in Silicon Valley, he and his backers agreed that an outsider should be head of the organization. Robert Schroeder, a Harvard M.B.A., then came in to run the company...
Whereas in the past marriage was primarily an economic proposition, many Chinese now place due emphasis on mutual affection, compatibility and even sexual equality. Officials insist that the rise in divorce is temporary, largely because of cases that piled up under the old restrictive law. Alarmed Communist guardians of Chinese morals are hoping that they are right...
...plus registered Cambridge Democrats walking last Saturday into the Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School cafeteria--the site of the Harvard-area Ward 6 caucus--only one sported a Tom O'Neill's button. The Dukakis slate prevailed with near unanimity, O'Neill's men insist they never expected to carry that "liberal activist" section of Tommy's hometown. But it's harder for them to explain why he couldn't sweep eastern and northern Cambridge, or why his supporters joined with King forces in his very own ward 10 "neighborhood slate"--a strategy some coordinators had said they would...
King aides insist that the proximity with the caucuses was coincidental, insisting that the ads were designed to "educate the public" about the governor's recent state of the state and budget messages. Dukakis strategists matter-of-factly cite direct attacks on their candidate and no explicit mention of either of the speeches...
...number 17 became inextricably linked with the Yellow Pig much later, when it came to Kelly's attention that the Yellow Pig has 17 eye-lashes--eight on the left eye and nine on the right. (Some radicals insist that there are ten on the left eye and seven on the right...