Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crash program that was started in February after a burst of race riots and a series of conciliatory meetings between the Cleveland school board and civil rights leaders. But because Lakeview and two other new elementary school sites are all in predominantly Negro neighborhoods, the civil rights forces insist that they would merely "promote resegregation...
...have no deep political differences any more." Having been twice bitten by Sukarno, both in Indonesia and New Guinea, the Dutch will demand tight guarantees in their dealings with him. Though in effect they are helping the dictator over the economic problems resulting from his Malaysian "confrontation," the Dutch insist that they do not intend to bolster Indonesia's harassment of the new federation. Malaysia, whose own trade with The Netherlands runs to a healthy $75 million yearly, is not so sure-and has grounds for increasing concern about anything beneficial to Sukarno. The size of Indonesian raiding parties...
...Fryer, research director of the 75,000-member meat packers' union: "If the A. & P. comes to Swift and says, 'We want a million pounds of wieners at 100 a pound' and Swift says 'No,' then A. & P. takes its order elsewhere." Such critics insist that the large chains ought to be able to pass such savings on to the customer...
They contain less rubber, have thinner treads and inner cores of lower-grade material, and are generally built to less demanding specifications. Are the cheapies safe? The tire manufacturers insist that they are-so long as they are used only for driving about town at moderate speeds and not on constant or long highway trips. Alabama's Democratic Congressman Kenneth Roberts, who is sponsoring the tire bill in Congress, is afraid that most tire buyers do not know this. He wants a law that will make companies say why a cheapie is so cheap...
...send comparable goods to the U.S. Out numbered in the shipping conferences that set the rates, American lines have usually gone along with the higher out bound rates set by foreign shippers. Alarmed at the disparity, Congress prodded the Maritime Administration into studying the matter, is now likely to insist that the maritime regulatory agencies use their power to force shipping conferences to set fairer rates...