Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pass it this week without amendment, but the Senate may not act upon the measure until late September. Members of the potent Senate Finance Committee have already said that they will cut the income-tax increase, shorten the length of time for which increases will be retroactive, and insist that the Government trim at least $5 billion of fat out of its nonwar expenditures, in order to make the budget balance even with the smaller tax yield...
...countries which sold war materials to the Communist nations. Reading the signs, the British government belatedly toughened up in its dealings with the Communist Chinese (see FOREIGN NEWS), agreed (as did France) to support an economic blockade of mainland China in the U.N., and announced that it would not insist that Formosa be turned over to Red China-at least not until the Korean fighting ended...
...fact is that Iran does not measure up to full sovereignty and in such a country rigid application of the sovereign state theory falls flat. Americans have controlled Iranian finances before and, if invited, should insist on such powers again...
...Group tutorial can generally be a more effective teaching method than individual. Tutors with experience in group teaching insist that it can be highly successful, especially with students of no especial academic brilliance who are often uneasy in individual tutorial meetings. . . . The teacher's job, however, increases in proportion to the size of the group. He must be able to draw out the inarticulate, restrain the more talkative, and keep the discussion within useful channels. The consensus seems to be that five is a suitable number for good group discussions...
...because she never got around to finishing Wellesley for a degree, Ellis Cooke will insist that she is the most as educated woman ever to make a fornate No one knows the exact position this dignified woman holds in the town; but at one time it was believed she owned has its property. Now she owns nothing but a big shingled house which overlooks the surrounding country. Here she keeps her art treasures from all over the world and continues to preach the ideals which she has been following since 1899, when she bought Dana Hall...