Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...build your share of the market with price cutting. The way to grow is to build pipelines, service stations, more depots." The result is that, like the auto and the cigarette industries, oildom's giants rarely compete on the basis of price. But they insist that they are competitive as well as clubby. "Personally, we may all be the best of friends," says Shell Managing Director Tim Wilkinson, "but after we say goodbye to each other, we go back to our offices and scrap like hell." At a time when profit margins are dwindling, one favorite way of hitting...
From the sanctuary of one of Seoul's private hospitals, Lee fought a stubborn delaying action. Rushing off to Kyung-mudae, Madame Lee joined forces with her great friend, Rhee's Austrian wife Francesca, and together the two women spent a tearful hour begging Rhee not to insist on Lee's resignation. But the pressure on Rhee steadily increased. Ambassador McConaughy came through the tanks, machine guns and barbed wire around the palace to deliver another reminder of U.S. concern. At Inchon, 25,000 people turned out to demonstrate-with no violence from the chastened police...
Lerner loves to provoke students ("Thrilling," says one) who spout Gandhi's idealism-and refuse to get their hands dirty in the new world. When they insist that poverty-stricken India is nonetheless "contented," Lerner snaps back: "Like a cow?" He points to the U.S. experience. A healthy discontent, says he, is the key to "social dynamism." The lack of this quality, he adds, is what ails India...
Macmillan himself was amazed and outraged, and the Foreign Office put out an official statement denying that Macmillan had ever mentioned Naziism in Washington or threatened an alliance with Russia against Germany and the Common Market nations. Macmillan went before the House of Commons to insist: "We believe that the new friendship between Germany and France is absolutely vital to the future peace in Europe. We agree . . . that not only do the Six have the right to make this commercial treaty, but that it is a good thing-we have said it over and over again-to have that degree...
...insist on a single explication for a book as subtle and brilliant as Author Knowles's would be idle. But one of the things the novelist seems to be saying is that the enemy Gene killed, and loved, is the one every man must kill: his own youth, the innocence that burns too hotly to be endured...