Word: insistence
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Administration officials concede that there is some organizational confusion. But they insist that there is an overall policy, and that their seeming obsession with the Soviet Union is based not only on ideology but on the perception that the U.S. is in a position of weakness in relation to the U.S.S.R. Because the U.S. will shortly face a "window of vulnerability" in the nuclear balance, the Administration argues, it must rapidly build up its military strength and form new alliances to discourage Soviet belligerence. This attempt to achieve a "margin of safety" underlies more specific policy decisions, for which State...
...protests mount, Chancellor Schmidt continues to insist that most West Germans back his policies. He may be right about that, but surely wrong if he feels that the currents can be ignored or that in their way they do not reflect, even if they exaggerate, feelings of doubt and concern that are new to the West German people at large. Schmidt's pragmatic answer to his nation's current dilemma, given recently to a Hamburg newspaper, is "no blood, no tears, but sweat." Since the end of World War II, the West German's have shown...
...officials insist they had no legal right to bring Williams to their headquarters on the basis of a splash. Only when the body of Nathaniel Cater, 27, the 28th and most recent victim, was found in the Chattahoochee two days later were the agents justified in taking action. The one "vulnerability" in the handling of the case, said an FBI official, was the "looseness of surveillance" shortly after the May 22 incident. According to neighbors, Williams removed several boxes from his home the following day. The boxes "could be irrelevant." said the official, "but they also could be the very...
...virgins sacrificed on the altar of a Socialist god!" Says an embittered business leader: "The Socialist leveler tide just may succeed where 200 years of recurring French puritanism has failed: to make France colorless and downright boring." As for the shorter workday and higher minimum wage, businessmen insist that less work for more pay will simply make French exports uncompetitive, leading to lower growth and higher unemployment...
Though whiffs of passing joggers hardly arouse uncontrollable passions in most people, Jovan officials insist that alpha androstenol actually is a pheromone, which is a biochemical that has the power of sexual excitement. At best, the evidence is skimpy. A study conducted at San Francisco State University and published last year showed that sweaty odors can change the menstrual cycles of women. But any closer link between such substances and human sexuality is still uncertain...