Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...murky record of recent years where the personal political career of the Council President has sometimes found a convenient stepping stone in the Council. In the opinion of Leed and Zagat, a decrease in the importance of the Presidency would alleviate this chronic trouble; inter-House Council enthusiasts insist that only a cut-back in Council influence and power can do it. Evaluating the Dunster withdrawal, Leed has remarked that Bailey's rebellion is "something like a populist movement at Harvard." If that is so, Leed and Zagat resemble New Dealers...
...forging ahead at half a dozen dusty sites on the Upper Colorado Basin Project, the most ambitious water-harnessing program in U.S. history. The effort now includes four huge dam complexes and eleven satellite projects, is budgeted at more than $1 billion. But the U.S. Reclamation Department engineers insist that this is just the beginning; they talk of an expanding network of dams, power stations, storage lakes and irrigation canals that will stir to life huge, drowsing areas of Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. Industry is moving into the area. Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. is building the world...
...project of L-C and Pierre Jeanneret was the only one of 360 schemes (seven miles of plans) that received four votes out of nine. It was at this point that the delegate from Pans pointed out: 'This scheme has not been drawn in India ink. I insist it be disqualified, and it was." Huffed Corbu of his critics in those years: "Madmen...
...Peace Corps, he suggested, should equip itself with an orientation program which will teach its members to set forth the reasons and rationale (though not necessarily force them to reflect the opinions) behind government policy. It should also provide an F.B.I security check for each applicant, insist that each member selected swear to support the Constitution, and "select out" people who show themselves to be Comunist agents while working abroad...
...issues go so fast? Partially because many new companies float a comparatively small amount of shares (usually 100,000 or less), which can be quickly driven up by even slight demand. New issues also have a built-in rising mechanism because underwriters insist that their offering price have some initial relation to earnings-when they have earnings-or be low enough to compete for investors. Thus, in a high-priced market, they bring them out at prices that look like bargains to many amateur investors. Adds Josephthal & Co.'s Sidney Lurie: "We all know it's ridiculous...