Word: insistence
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Fund drive strategists insist they're approaching the coming months with "cautious optimism," which probably means that they don't know what to expect but hope for the best. Economists, on the other hand, are boldly asserting--in such places as the front of The New York Times--that institutions depending on donations from the private sector are about to be hit by drastic income reductions...
Because of this the new firms must rely heavily on the scientists who are on the cutting edge of technology--in universities--who are familiar with the most recent theoretical advances. And these scholars insist that merely describing their work is impossible...
...parties. Opponents also warn that the Saudi government is unstable, and that if it fell, as had the pro-U.S. regime of the late Shah of Iran, the sophisticated weaponry could end up in anti-American hands. Even with AWACS and F-15s, foes of the deal insist, Saudi Arabia's air power would be no match for a Soviet move against the oil sources, while no smaller nation in the region, like Iran or South Yemen, would dare make such a move. Anyway, say opponents, Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani stated in April...
Kleindienst describes the charge that Nixon ordered him to go easy on Fitzsimmons and friends as "absolutely false. The man [Nixon] never mentioned the Teamsters to me." Former White House Aides Charles Colson and John Ehrlichman, who are said to have helped set up the Nixon-Fitzsimmons meeting, insist that they have no recollection of it. A spokesman for Nixon at first told TIME that Nixon also had no memory of a meeting with Fitzsimmons at the White House in late 1972. But when told that the meeting supposedly was arranged by Colson, the spokesman said: "Colson? Oh, now, that...
Indeed, airline officials are less concerned about the strike's effect on safety than about adjusting their operations to meet the reduced schedule of flights-and cut down on the estimated $30 million a day now being lost by the industry. Administration officials continue to insist that the 12,000 striking air controllers are fired, and the FAA has turned its attention to rebuilding the air-traffic control system, a task that may take two years. To that end, the agency began accepting applications last week for air controller jobs, which pay $20,462 to start. More than...