Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...StarCase hired the former president of DBD to produce this year's games. Sources say that a personality conflict between John P. Reardon Jr. '60, director of athletics, and the producer, Dudley Freeman, prompted Reardon to insist that the contract specifically bar Freeman from attending the events...
...Tung Five. For several issues last winter, the theme was May Day 1980, which the party urged workers to celebrate by leaving their jobs and marching. The edition after the event conceded that the national goal--10,000 people in the streets--had not been met, but it did insist that "shock waves," pictured on the front cover, had been sent rippling through the establishment...
...disappeared. Nassau authorities inexplicably claimed that there never had been a body until Yourell angrily made public his photographs of the scene. Bahamian authorities now acknowledge that a constable aboard the plane spotted the body and that the yacht was a shambles as described by Yourell (though they insist, despite accounts from at least three eyewitnesses, that there were no shotgun holes or embedded pellets in the yacht...
Many Florida-based yachtsmen accuse Bahamian authorities of being reluctant to act against the smugglers for fear of jeopardizing tourism. This is denied by Bahamian officials, who insist that the islands remain a peaceful playground for yachtsmen. Still, warns Skip Nichols, "If you're not careful, you can get run over by those high-powered drug boats...
...particularly unpleasant feature of life is what the Chinese call qiang xing da pei, or forced distribution. It means simply that if one wants to buy a particular "item in a store, the clerk, who is eager for a productivity bonus, may insist on the purchase of an additional, slower-moving item as well...